| Jessica Hagedorn and Victoria Redel read from articles published by Liu Xiaobo and from the Beijing Municipality First Intermediate Peoples Court verdict against him, as part of the 2009 event Writers Rally for the Release of Liu Xiaobo. |
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From the 2005 article “The CPC’s Dictatorial Patriotism” by Liu Xiaobo:
“The official patriotism advocated by the CPC dictatorship is a fallacious system of ‘substituting the party for the country.’ The essence of this patriotism is to demand that the people love the dictatorship, the one-party rule, and the dictators. It usurps patriotism in order to inflict disasters on the nation and calamities on the people.”
Victoria:
From the 2007 article “Further Questions about Child Slavery in China’s Kilns” by Liu Xiaobo:
“Since the Communist Party of China took power, generations of CPC dictators have cared most about their own power and least about human life.”
From the verdict of the Beijing Municipality First Intermediate Peoples Court, December 25, 2009:
The on-the-scene investigation by the Public Security organs proves: Beijing Municipality Public Information Network Security and Supervision Officer, First Detachment, found and downloaded from the Internet a document signed “Liu Xiaobo” entitled “Can It Be that the Chinese People Deserve Only ‘Party-Led Democracy’?” As of December 23, 2008 this document had been published or republished on five web sites and had a total of 402 hits.
The investigating officer also found and downloaded from the Internet a document signed “Liu Xiaobo” entitled “Change the Political Regime by Changing Society”. This document had been published or republished on five web sites and had a total of 748 hits.
The officer also found and downloaded a document signed “Liu Xiaobo” entitled “The Many Faces of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship”. This document had been published or republished on six web sites and had a total of 512 hits.
The officer also downloaded a document signed “Liu Xiaobo” entitled “The Negative Effect of the Rise of a Dictatorship on World Democratization”. This document had been published or republished on seven web sites and had a total of 57 hits.
The officer downloaded a document signed “Liu Xiaobo” entitled “Further Questions about Child Slavery in China’s Kilns”. This document had been published or republished on eight web sites and had a total of 488 hits.
The officer also downloaded from the Internet a document entitled “Charter 08”. That document resided on the web site with the domain name www.chinesepen.org (The Independent Chinese PEN Center). This document as of December 12, 2008 had been published or republished on 33 web sites including 19 outside the borders of mainland China and had a total of 5154 hits and 158 replies. (Charter 08) had as of December 9, 2009 the signatures of 10,390 people.
The Beijing Municipality Public Information Network Security and Supervision Office investigated Liu Xiaobo's e-mails and as a result of that examination found that Liu Xiaobo's e-mail mailbox is located outside the borders of mainland China. After using a password to get into that mailbox to check it, it was found that the earliest e-mail sent from that mailbox was dated November 25, 2008 and that 30 of the sent e-mails included “Charter 08”. |
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