BBC: #LiuXiaobo 11-year jail term was handed down in 2009 after he compiled, with other intellectuals, the Charter 08 manifesto. It called for an end to one-party rule and the introduction of multi-party democracy. Mr Liu was found guilty of trying to overthrow the state. He was a pro-democracy figurehead for activists outside mainland China, although many of his compatriots were unaware of his struggles because the authorities rigorously censored news about him. The dissident won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China", but he was not permitted to travel to Norway to accept it. He was the second person to receive the award while in prison - the other was the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who won in 1935 while incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40597514 #china #humanrights #liuxiaobo #politicalprisoner #freespeech #democracy #dissident #stateviolence #repression #politicalrepression #prisonhealthcare #statesanctionedviolence #freespeech #nobelprize #riseofchina #dictatorship #tienamensquare #1989 #martyr #censorship #housearrest #legacy #thingstodobefore61 (at Jinzhou, Liaoning, China)
