To Touch On the Root of the Evil: Who is afraid of Liu Xiaobo?
EU-China: Civil Society Forum, Hintergrundinformationen 2/2010, 21 February 2010, 4 p.
The article is contributed by Tienchi Martin-Liao, President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center. She gives a detailed analysis of Liu Xiaobo`s case, the primary drafter and signatory of Charter 08, prominent Chinese writer and activist of the past two decades. In this article, she explains why, among many other activists, Liu has been singled out and punished heavily. And how his fate, as well as other recently-sentenced activists`, shows the Chinese Communist Party`s further tightening grip on human rights.
The article is contributed by Tienchi Martin-Liao, President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center. She gives a detailed analysis of Liu Xiaobo`s case, the primary drafter and signatory of Charter 08, prominent Chinese writer and activist of the past two decades. In this article, she explains why, among many other activists, Liu has been singled out and punished heavily. And how his fate, as well as other recently-sentenced activists`, shows the Chinese Communist Party`s further tightening grip on human rights.
