Liu Xianbin

Liu Xianbin ( Chinese  刘贤斌 ; born August 25 or October 2, 1968 in Suining ) is a Chinese writer, dissident , human rights activist and a signatory of Charter 08 . Because of his commitment to democracy and human rights, he was sentenced several times to long prison terms.

biography

Liu Xianbin was on October 2, 1968 in the city of Suining , Province of Sichuan , was born. From 1987 he attended the School of Labor and Personnel at Renmin University in Beijing. In his autobiographical essay he writes: "In 1998, influenced by the 'liberalization movement', I lost faith in the rule of the Communist Party of China and, with a few others, I took part in the organization of an anti-communist group and contributed articles to a magazine".

Tian'anmen massacre

In May 1989, Liu took part in the democratic demonstrations and student fasts, and blocked the movement of military vehicles during the Tian'anmen massacre on June 4, 1989. At that time, Liu was in Sichuan, where he was participating in the great June 4 demonstration participated in Chengdu .

When he went back to school in Beijing after the Tian'anmen massacre, Liu wrote many posters and articles criticizing the repression and agitating for the establishment of a democratic political party in China. On April 15, 1991, he was arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau and taken to Qiucheng Prison for his democratic activism and publications. On December 28, 1992, Liu was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Beijing People's Court for the crime of "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement". He was released in October 1993.

After his release, Liu continued his democratic activities. In May 1995, he participated with Wang Dan and Liu Xiaobo in a petition entitled Learning from Blood and Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law . The police raided his home and arrested him again in July that year.

In March 1998, Liu wrote an open letter to the Ninth National People's Congress calling on the Chinese government to improve human rights conditions and sign the Convention on Human Rights. That same year, a group of dissidents in Zhejiang founded the Democratic Party of China . Liu arrived in Chongqing to set up the Sichuan branch for the party. On October 15, 1998, Liu Xianbin, She Wanbao and other like-minded people visited the Sichuan Civil Affairs Bureau and registered "the Sichuan Organizing Committee of the Democratic Party of China." Together with She Wanbao and Ouyang Yi, he also founded the temporary headquarters of China Human Rights Watch and was appointed deputy director. He organized a nationwide rescue operation for Xu Wenli, Qin Yongmin, and Wang Youcai.

Subversion judgment 1999

In the mid-1990s, Liu Xianbin was an organizer of the Chinese Democratic Party. In 1999, Liu was arrested in Beijing and held in the Beijing Detention Center for one month. He was then sent back to Suining and placed under house arrest. On July 7th, he was arrested by the Suining Public Security Bureau of Lingquan Temple Detention Center in Suining City.

On August 6, 1999, he was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for three years by the Suining City People's Court of Sichuan for “endangering state authority”. After serving his sentence with good conduct, he was released on November 6, 2008, after nine years and four months in Chuandong Prison in Sichuan.

After his release from prison in November 2008, Liu was among the earliest signatories of Charter 08 , which calls for democratic reform.

Sentence since June 2010

Liu Xianbin noted in his report of his police interrogation in March 2010 that public security asked him about four articles that had appeared on foreign websites. Liu concluded his report by stating that this time after interrogation he was allowed to go home, but that his arrest was only a matter of time.

On June 27th, 2010, Liu Xianbin was arrested on suspicion of "inciting endangering state violence." Sichuan's Suining Public Security Bureau sent the Suining Prosecutor's Office a recommendation on July 21, 2010 that Liu should be charged with incitement to endanger the state authority. The advice given to prosecutors lists several statements by Liu Xianbin in his many articles from Chinese magazines and overseas websites that the Suinings Public Security Bureau considered subversive.

The "Proposal" mentioned that Liu "wrote articles for publication and posted them on the Internet." These articles have appeared in publications outside mainland China such as Human Rights Watch , Beijing Spring Magazine, China Weekly, Democratic China, China Human Rights Semi-weekly. He slandered the political power of the people's democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party as "autocratic rule" and repeatedly provoked the overthrow of the political regime and the socialist system of our country. "

According to news reports quoting his wife, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March 2011.

Publications

Many of Liu Xianbin's articles are available online from the Chinese Independent Pen Center's website, including:

• Baptism of blood and fire
• Liu Xianbin: 100 days since released
• A late memory: remembering the death of Zhao Ziyang five years ago
• See China through Vaclav Havel's eyes
• Street actions are an important tactic for the Chinese democracy movement
• A discussion based on “People are masters in their own homes”
• Decisions for the Chinese Movement after the heavy sentence Liu Xiaobo received
• My Twenty Years in the Chinese Democracy Movement - The Arrest of Chen Wei, Part 1

See also

• Weiquan movement

Web links

• Amnesty International Urgent Action for Liu Xianbin on March 25, 2011
• 3Sat Kulturzeit: Civil rights activist Liu Xianbin sentenced to prison , March 25, 2011
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Liu Xianbin: 10 years imprisonment for Chinese dissidents , March 25, 2011
• LIU Xianbin at the Writers in Prison Committee - Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC)
• Collection of Liu Xianbin's essays

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Liu Xianbin autobiography Internet Archive , December 10, 2009, accessed October 28, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Initiatives for China website article on prisoner Liu Xianbin ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Initiativesforchina.org , accessed October 28, 2017. 
3. ↑ Liu Xianbin autobiographical article ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Boxun , accessed October 30, 2017 
4. ↑ Liu Xianbin: On My Interrogation ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Internet Archive , May 29, 2010, accessed October 30, 2017. 
5. ↑ Suining, Sichuan Public Security Bureau Advice on the Indictment of Liu Xianbin, transmitted to Suining Procuratorate on July 27, 2010 ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Suining Public Security Bureau , accessed October 30, 2017. 
6. ^ Dissident gets `` unusually harsh '10 years' jail The Standard , March 28, 2011, accessed October 30, 2017.
7. ↑ Collection of Liu Xianbin's Essays ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Internet Archive , accessed October 30, 2017. 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Xianbin is the first name.