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- It was taken from a speech he wrote in December 2009, days before he was jailed.
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Jul 9, 2024 · Liu Xiaobo (born December 28, 1955, Changchun, Jilin province, China—died July 13, 2017, Shenyang, Liaoning province, China) was a Chinese literary critic, professor, and human rights activist who called for democratic reforms and the end of one-party rule in China.
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Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波; pinyin: Liú Xiǎobō; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Chinese Communist Party one-party rule in China. [2]
Jul 13, 2017 · In 2008, Liu was a co-author of Charta 08, a manifesto which advocates the gradual shifting of China's political and legal system in the direction of democracy. He was arrested in December 2008, and sentenced a year later to eleven years' imprisonment for undermining the state authorities.
Oct 9, 2010 · After Liu’s first prison term ended in 1991, the Communist Party continued to chafe at his writings. He was placed under house arrest in 1995, then ordered to a labor camp for “reeducation.”
Jul 13, 2017 · HONG KONG — The Chinese government tried to silence Liu Xiaobo by banning the publication of his writing, barring him from public speaking and locking him behind bars.
Jun 4, 1989 · "I Sit Here" was written in June 1995 when Liu Xiaobo was detained outside Beijing. What's notable is the "rain" in the last stanza which responds to the first poem Liu Xiaobo wrote for her in 1991 about himself being in the rain.
Dec 28, 2019 · 2010 Liu Xiaobo. Exhibition in the Suite. 4 May–14 Sep 2014. Photo: Johannes Granseth/ Nobel Peace Center. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”. But the chair stood empty in Oslo during the Award Ceremony.
