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Sentenced For Advocating Basic Human Rights In China
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On December 24, 2009, Intermediate People's Court in Beijing has given an 11-year jail term to prominent political dissident Liu Xiaobo indicting him for the subversion after he called for sweeping political reforms and an end to the Communist Party rule in China.
Liu has co-authored the political manifesto called Charter 08 calling for political liberalization in China. The Chinese authority has arrested only Liu for writing and publishing the Charter 08 although reportedly more than 300 persons have signed it. In addition to demanding the guarantee of human rights, direct election of public officials, and freedom of religion and expression, the Charter 08 has urged the Chinese government to abolish the law on subversion under which Liu is sentenced for 11 years in jail.
Liu was a former Beijing Normal University professor, and had spent 20 months in jail for persuading the students to leave the student-led protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which ended with the military brutally killing several hundreds of students.
