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After his release on 7 October 1999, Liu Xiaobo resumed his freelance writing. However, it was reported [63] that the government built a sentry station next to his home and his phone calls and internet connections were tapped. In 2000, while in Taiwan, Liu published the book A Nation That Lies to Conscience, a 400-page political criticism.
I have no enemies: My final Statement" (Chinese: 我没有敌人──我的最后陈述) was an essay written by Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, intended to be read at his trial in December 2009. [1] [2] Liu was charged with the crime of "inciting subversion of state power". He came before the court in Beijing ...
No Enemies, No Hatred is a book by Nobel Peace Prize-winning writer and activist Liu Xiaobo which contains a wide selection of his writings and poetry between 1989 and 2009. [1] It was published in 2012 by the Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press .
Liu was jailed for 11 years for "inciting subversion of state power" after he helped write a petition calling for sweeping political reforms. Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo dies at 61 ...
In 2009, one of the authors of Charter 08, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment for "inciting subversion of state power" because of his involvement. A year later, Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. In 2017, he was granted medical parole and died shortly after of terminal liver cancer.
Liu Xia (Chinese: 刘霞; born 1 April 1961, Beijing, China) is a Chinese painter, poet, and photographer. Liu Xia was under effective house arrest in China as her husband, Liu Xiaobo, had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. She remained under house arrest until 10 July 2018, when she was allowed to travel to Germany for medical treatment.
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017) "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". [1]
Liu Xiaobo also wrote an article criticizing Yang Jia at the time, Liu Xiaobo said at the time that Yang Jia's killing of the police was "primitive justice". The attitudes of Yu Jie and Liu Xiaobo towards Yang Jia at that time were very controversial in the pro-democracy circles. Many people criticized them for being too similar to the CCP.