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| Current News | 22.11.2011
Empty Chair - freedom for Liu Xiaobo
 The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial calls your attention to the following appeal to action: Empty Chair - freedom for Liu Xiaobo! With the worldwide symbolic gesture by putting an empty chair on December 10th 2011 at 13:18 pm in front of the embassies of the People’s Republic of China we want to put emphasis on our request to the Chinese government: "Freedom for Liu Xiaobo!”.
Anyone, who wants to join this protest, can do it likewise by putting an empty chair on the street in his city, his office or in his university on December 10th 2011 at 13:18 pm.
| | 02.11.2011
Civil rights activist Freya Klier with US-president Barack Obama
 In remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin wall, GDR civil rights activist Freya Klier was received by US-president Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House during a defilee on June 7th. She is the first of ex-Hohenschönhausen detainees to receive this honor.
| | 13.10.2011
Platform of European Memory and Conscience founded
 On October 14, 2011, the heads of 19 partner institutions and organisations specialised in the subject of totalitarian history from 13 EU member states will sign the founding document of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience in Prague. The goals of the platform consist in contributing to a better networking of governmental and non-governmental institutions and organisations which deal with totalitarian regimes and in deepening the awareness about European history. From Germany, the director of the Memorial, Hubertus Knabe, will be present at the ceremony.
| | 10.10.2011
Exhibition: The Tunisian way of Revolution
 The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen-Memorial presents a new exhibition starting on 24th October 2011 which displays pictures of the Tunisian photographer Hamideddine Bouali taken during the Tunisian Revolution. Shown for the first time at the Goethe Institut Tunesien in April 2011 the exhibition will be hosted by the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen-Memorial until 31st December 2011.
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