{"id":4064,"date":"2014-12-11T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2014-12-11T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:25:38","slug":"liu-xiaobo-nobel-winning-chinese-dissident-is-said-to-send-message-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/liu-xiaobo-nobel-winning-chinese-dissident-is-said-to-send-message-from-prison","title":{"rendered":"Liu Xiaobo, Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident, Is Said to Send Message From Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By EDWARD WONG and IAN JOHNSON DEC. 10, 2014<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 A prominent Chinese writer living in Berlin said Wednesday that he had received a message from Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who has been held by the Chinese authorities since 2008 and is serving a long prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The writer, Liao Yiwu, who has known Mr. Liu for decades, declined to elaborate on how he received the message or what form it arrived in.<\/p>\n<p>The message said: \u201cI am O.K. Here in prison, I have continually been able to read and think. In my studies, I have become even more convinced I have no personal enemies. The nimbus around me is shiny enough by now. I hope the world could pay more attention to other victims who are not well known, or not known at all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Liao said he received the message early Tuesday from people in China. Mr. Liu has rarely if ever gotten messages out from his prison in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, where he is serving an 11-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is absolutely real,\u201d Mr. Liao said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve received communication in all these years. I can\u2019t say how I received it, but I know it is genuine. It is touching to hear this from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/11liu-master180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/12\/11liu-master180.jpg\" alt=\"11liu-master180\" width=\"180\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Liu Xiaobo in an undated photo released by his family in 2010. He has been imprisoned since 2008. Credit via Reuters<br \/>\nMr. Liu was detained by the police in 2008 after he helped write and circulate an online petition called Charter 08, calling for gradual political change in China that would eventually result in a Western-style democracy based on constitutional rights. Mr. Liu was formally charged in June 2009 with \u201cinciting subversion of state power,\u201d and on Dec. 25, 2009, he was given an 11-year prison sentence by a Beijing court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/11\/world\/asia\/liu-xiaobo-chinese-dissident-message-from-prison.html?ref=world&amp;_r=1\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By EDWARD WONG and IAN JOHNSON DEC. 10,  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/liu-xiaobo-nobel-winning-chinese-dissident-is-said-to-send-message-from-prison\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,51,45],"tags":[1341],"views":3584,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}