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This is a Chinesename; the family name is Liu.

Liu Xiaobo^[1] (28 December &#; 13 July ) was a Chineseintellectual, writer, human rights activist and a political prisoner in China.^[2]

He has been President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center since On 8 December , police stopped Liu and held him because of his work with Charter He was not actually arrested until 23 June The government accused him of encouraging people to turn against the state.^[3][4] He had a trial on 23 December ^[5] On 25 December , the court decided he must go to prison for eleven years.

The court also took away his political rights for two years.^[6]

He won the Nobel Peace Prize on 8 October , for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."^[7][8] This was during the fourth time Liu was in prison.^[9]

He is the first Chinese person to win a Nobel Prize while living in Chi