Sex Male
Birth date 1955-12-28
Birth place Changchun City, Jilin Province
Resident place Beijing City
Education BA in literature, Jilin University (1982) and PhD in literature (1988) at Beijing Normal University
Profession Freelance writer and human right activist (former President and current Honorary President of ICPC, Honorary member of German, American, Scottish, Iceland, English Portuguese, Czech and Sydney PEN Centers)
Date of arrest 2008-12-08 (residential surveillance)，2009-06-23 (arrested)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Beijing City
Cause of arrest Initiating and signing the Charter 08, a declaration calling for political reform and human rights, and publishing dissident articles overseas
Charge Inciting of subversion of State power
Date of sentence 2009-12-23 (hearing), 2009-12-25 (verdict), 2010-02-11 (appeal)
Organ of sentence Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court, Beijing High People’s Court (appeal)
Sentence 11 years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights
Defender Lawyers MO Shaoping (barred from this case), SHANG Baojun and DING Xikui
Place of jail No. 1 Detention Center of Beijing City; since 2020-05-26, Jinzhou Prison, Nanshan Road 86, Taihe District, 121013 Jinzhou City, Liaonin Province
Situation in jail OK
Date of release 2020-06-21
Family contact LIU Xia (wife), Tel: +86-10-88511820
Donation to
Case adopted by International PEN
Current Status Main Case
References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo_(intellectual)
http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/go/news/international-pen-protests-the-detention-of-leading-chinese-dissident-writer-liu-xiaobo
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/charter08-12122008082843.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6967856.ece
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%98%E6%99%93%E6%B3%A2 (Chinese)
http://www.chinesepen.org/Article/bhdt/200812/Article_20081210004947.shtml (Chinese)
http://www.boxun.com/hero/liuxb/ (Chinese)
http://www.chinesepen.org/Article/yzzjwyh/200912/Article_20091226020503.shtml