Behind bars. For their families, will know that Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Any recognition of their struggle for democracy and human rights in China, but a full-blown slap the Beijing regime. To his sorrow, his efforts to modernize the country thanks to its openness and economic growth are overshadowed by an apparent lack of freedom that leads to jail political dissidents such as Liu Xiaobo.
Born December 28, 1955 in Changchun, capital of Jilin province, was sentenced to eleven years in prison for last Christmas. His crime: subversion against the state, the vague and general accusations with which the communist regime is often still referred to prosecute all those who question the hegemony of the Party.
Professor of Literature at the University of Beijing, Liu Xiaobo participated in the protests of students who took Tiananamen Square in the spring of 1989, which ended with a bloodbath when the army crushed by force the order of Deng Xiaoping, the "Little Helmsman" which opened the country after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
Designated as an "enemy state" since then, Liu Xiaobo spent six years in prison and then was confined under house arrest and subjected to constant police surveillance. After diverting the police who guarded him, gave an interview to a Western newspaper, coinciding with the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. In this talk, kept in a quiet room reserved for a tea shop, claimed that the movement of the university "did not fail, it awakened democracy and the struggle for civil rights in China."
Promoter of the "Charter 08"
board the cross, Liu Xiaobo, who heads the Pen Club of China since 2003, led the drafting of the "Charter 08", a manifesto for democracy inspired by the "Charter 77 "written that year in Czechoslovakia against the Soviet occupation. The document, signed in late 2008 by 300 intellectuals and supported by thousands of Internet users after claiming 19 measures such as reforming the Constitution of China, carry out a genuine separation of powers to achieve judicial independence and promote multiparty democratic elections all levels guarantee human rights and freedoms of expression, assembly and religion.
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addition to warn of the serious social inequalities and environmental problems facing the country, this open letter called for dialogue with Taiwan and minorities to move towards a federal republic in China and did not forget to order the release of political prisoners and the abolition of the offenses that criminalize dissent.
A challenge to the political monopoly of the communist regime, who arrested him in late 2008 and sentenced to eleven years in prison three days before his birthday last December. In some there is worth it and half a million dollars which is equipped with the prestigious Nobel Prize, but the cause of democracy in China itself has received a global boost outstanding.
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