Dharamshala:
Hailing the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today extended solidarity to the movement for democracy in Myanmar and hoped that China will free fellow Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and other "prisoners of conscience".
Suu Kyi, the 65-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner and pro-democracy leader, was freed from detention yesterday by Myanmar's military government.
"I welcome the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and extend my appreciation to the military regime in Burma. I extend my full support and solidarity to the movement for democracy there and take this opportunity to appeal to freedom-loving people all over the world to support such non-violent movements," Dalai Lama said in a message from Japan communicateed by the office of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala.
"I pray and hope that the government of the People's Republic of China will release fellow Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and other prisoners of conscience, who have been imprisoned for exercising their freedom of expression," Dalai
Lama said.