- Liu Xiaobo is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist single-party rule
| Born: | 28 December 1955 Comment | | How old is Liu Xiaobo in 2024? / Age: | 68 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
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Liu Xiaobo facts
- He is currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in Jinzhou, Liaoning
- Liu served from 2003 to 2007 as President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center
- He was also the president of Minzhu Zhongguo (Democratic China) magazine since the mid-1990s
- On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained because of his participation with the Charter 08 manifesto
- He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009 on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power"
- He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009, and sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009
- During his fourth prison term, Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China
- " He is the first Chinese citizen to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China
- Liu is the third person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Germany's Carl von Ossietzky (1935) and Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (1991)
- Liu is also the second person (the first being Ossietzky) to be denied the right to have a representative collect the Nobel prize for him
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