{"id":110470,"date":"2009-12-24T23:04:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T04:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2009-12-24T23:04:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T04:04:34","slug":"chinese-christmas-gift-dissident-liu-xiaobo-sentenced-to-11-years-for-%e2%80%9csubversion%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/110470","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Christmas gift: Dissident Liu Xiaobo Sentenced to 11 Years for \u201csubversion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From BBC<\/a> (emphasis added),<\/p>\n

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Leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo<\/a><\/strong> has been jailed for 11 years for “inciting subversion of state power”, after a trial condemned in the West.<\/strong> […]<\/p>\n

Mr Liu is a prominent government critic and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests.<\/p>\n

A writer and former university professor, he has been in jail since 2008, after being arrested for writing a document known as Charter 08<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The charter called for greater freedoms and democratic reforms in China, including an end to Communist one-party rule.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Liu is the only person to have been arrested for organising the Charter 08 appeal, but others who signed it have reported being harassed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From VOA<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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Rights groups suspect the date of the verdict, Christmas day, was chosen to reduce international attention to the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diplomats from the United States, Canada, Australia and several European countries were among those who stood outside during Liu’s trial Wednesday, after they were denied entry to the court house.<\/p>\n

China has denounced the foreign diplomats for what it calls “meddling.” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters Thursday that Liu is a Chinese citizen and, as a result, his case is an “internal” affair.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liu has been in detention for more than a year for his role in writing the pro-democracy manifesto called “Charter 08<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that China’s prosecution of Liu is an action “uncharacteristic of a great country.”<\/strong> A State Department spokesman, P.J. Crowley, said the U.S. will continue to have frank discussions with China about human rights and China’s future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prof. Liu Xiaobo YouTube video at PEN American Center,<\/p>\n

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An earlier AP report,<\/p>\n

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