Profile: Liu Xiaobo

The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, is an imprisoned Chinese human-rights activists.

In December 2008, they helped Thurs organisms, the 2008 Charter Petition, Which Called for Political Reforms in China. It was Published on the 60th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

They was detained Almost Immediately and Held for six months under house arrest. A group of ProMinent foreign academics, lawyers and writers, Including Several Nobel laureates, wrote Thurs, Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, Asking for Liu's release.

But in December 2009, Liu was jailed for 11 years for "inciting subversion of state power" for his Role in the Petition and for online Essays critical of the Communist Party.

Before Becoming an Activist, Liu was a Well-Known Writer and a literature professor at Beijing Normal University. Also, they worked as a visiting scholar at the Universities of Oslo, and Hawaii and at Columbia University in New York.

In 1987, his first book, The Choice of Criticism: Dialogues with Li Zehou, and Aesthetics is a philosophy, became a non-fiction bestseller. It Challenged the ideas of Professor Li Zehou, a rising star with great ideological Influence is a young intellectuals.

Orchestrating the protests

Since the 1989 pro-Democracy protests Centred in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Which were crushed by armed troops, Liu has Been an Activist for Human Rights and Political reform. They was jailed for 20 months over his Role in the protests.

In 1995, Liu orchestrated Several Daring Thurs parliament petitions by groups of dissidents and intellectuals. They was Held for More Than Seven Months without formaldehyde charges.

On September 30, 1996, Liu and Wang Xizhe, a veteran pro-Democracy Activist, ISSUED a statement urging the Communist Authorities Thurs honor a promise in 1945 to Give People Religious Freedom, Freedom of the press and speech, and the Freedom to form Political Demonstrations and hold parties.

They demanded That Jiang Zemin, the Communist Party chief, would be indicted for violating the Constitution for saying the Chinese army was under the "absolute leadership" of the party Instead of

the state.

Within weeks, Liu was Sentenced Thurs Three years in a labor camp.

Liu was born in 1955, in the city of Changchun in Jilin province.

After middle school, they was sent to the countryside to Work in Farms, and then worked at a Construction Company in Changchun before being admitted Thurs study Chinese literature at Jilin University,