Good morning, I´m Ana with a specific purpose to introduce you to, the topic of

Humans rights. The person I´m going to talk about is Liu Xiaobo.

Liu Xiaobo was born on the 28th of December 1955. As a young man he
studied literature and philosophy and worked as a literary critic and university
lecturer in Beijing. He took a doctorate in 1988, after which he was a guest
lecturer at universities in Europe and the USA.
He took part in student protests in the Tiananmen Square in 1989, also known
as the June 4th Massacre. The protest was a peaceful demonstration against
the Chinese government or People's Republic of China. Many civilians were
killed in the protest and Liu Xiaobo was sent to prison for two years and three
years in a labor camp, for criticized the Chinese authorities.

For over twenty years, Liu has fought for a more open and democratic China.
He demands that the Chinese authorities comply with Article 35 of the Chinese
Constitution, which lays down that the country's citizens enjoy “freedom of
speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of
demonstration”.

In 2008, Liu was a co-author of Charta 08, a manifest which advocates the
gradual shifting of China's political and legal system in the direction of
democracy. He was arrested in December 2008 and sentenced a year later to
eleven years' imprisonment for undermining the state authorities. Liu has
constantly denied the charges. “Opposition is not the same as undermining”, he
pointed out.

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." Liu
was also the first Chinese citizen to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while
residing in China.

Liu was married to Liu Xia, who was a poet and an artist. His wife said her
husband is innocent; it is the government that broke the law. "The constitution
says citizens have the right to free speech," she says. "But in 20 years in China,
Xiaobo has never enjoyed that freedom.

In May 2017 Liu was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, and the following
month he was granted a medical parole from prison to seek treatment. He
remained under armed guard during his hospitalization, and on 13 July 2017 Liu
became the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in state custody.