Soon after he was tried for subversion. According to freedom-of-speech advocacy group PEN America, he was convicted in for writing seven sentences , a total of Chinese characters.
He was given an year sentence. On June 26, , after serving more than seven years of his sentence, the prison holding Liu announced that he was being transferred to a nearby hospital to be treated for late-stage liver cancer— the same disease that killed his father.
Liu Xiaobo is born on Dec. The Cultural Revolution begins. Meanwhile, his father, a Communist Party member, is busy, and his older brothers go away to become Red Guards. Liu remembers this time of turmoil as one of unexpected freedom according to his biography, Steel Gate to Freedom :. Liu is admitted to Jilin University and studies Chinese literature. Liu begins his doctoral studies and publishes literary criticism in dozens of magazines.
In he publishes his first book, Criticism of the Choice: Dialogues with Li Zehou, which critiques a prominent intellectual. It becomes a bestseller. Liu works abroad at universities in Oslo and Hawaii and at Columbia University as a visiting scholar. While Liu is still in America, Chinese students break into massive pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
He flies back to stand staunchly on the side of students. Liu, as well as others, including Zhou Duo and Hou Dejian a Taiwan-born singer , play pivotal roles , including organizing a hunger strike. However, because of his leadership role in the protest, Liu is detained, fired from his job as a teacher, and his books are banned.
He later divorces his wife Tao in order to protect his family, according to the Guardian newspaper. He dedicated his Nobel prize to the martyrs of Tiananmen Square.
Liu was born in Changchun, Jilin, in north-east China, into an intellectual family. His parents, Liu Ling and Zhang Suqin, were devoted to the party, but from his youth Liu struck an independent course. His keen intelligence and razor tongue soon established his reputation: hundreds watched his dissertation defence, while students from other universities packed out his electrifying lectures. He made as many enemies as admirers in those years.
He was as merciless in dissecting friends and apparent allies as political opponents. He was individualist to the core, his friend and biographer Yu Jie noted, and it cost him close friendships. Later on, he acknowledged that he had been preoccupied with ideals of justice and human rights, showing little concern for the people around him.
While he let some down he was steadfast in his commitment to others, becoming especially close to Ding Zilin and Jiang Peikun , who had founded the Tiananmen Mothers pressure group in response to the killing of their year-old son. Friends noted that he was far less abrasive in maturity and, as co-founder and director of the Independent Chinese PEN centre , showed an unexpected talent for dialogue and compromise.
In he helped to draft and gather support for Charter 08, a bold call for peaceful political reform and an end to one-party rule, inspired by the Czechoslovakian dissidents who issued Charter 77 in Police detained him at his flat two days before its release and the following year he was given a punitive year sentence for inciting subversion.
Chinese Nobel laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo died three years ago on July 13 at the age of 61 from complications arising out of liver cancer. In , Xiaobo left his position as a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York City to take part in the pro-democracy protests in China. Xiaobo was arrested several times, the first in for supporting pro-democracy students during the Democracy Movement.
He was jailed for 21 months. In June , Xiaobo along with a few others went on a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square to protest against martial law and appeal for peaceful negotiations between the government and the protesting students.
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