| Honor Moore reads from Charter 08, the December 10, 2008 declaration calling for political reforms, greater human rights, and an end to one-party rule in China, and from the Beijing Municipality First Intermediate Peoples Court verdict against Liu Xiaobo, as part of the 2009 event Writers Rally for the Release of Liu Xiaobo. |
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From Charter 08:
“One-party monopolization of ruling privileges should be abolished.”
From the verdict of the Beijing Municipality First Intermediate Peoples Court, December 25, 2009:
This court believes that the defendant Liu Xiaobo, with the purpose of inciting the overthrow of our country’s people’s democratic dictatorship system and our socialist system, used the Internet to distribute his document because of its rapid speed, great scope, large social influence and the attention which the people pay to it. He wrote the documents and used the Internet to publish them in order to slander and urge other people to overthrow our country's democratic dictatorship system and our socialist system. This conduct in itself constitutes the crime of incitement to overthrow state power. Moreover, he has been committing this crime for a long while and the subjective evil caused is great. The published documents have been spread through links and republishing. People read them and they have a bad effect. This is the crime of a major criminal and should be severely punished according to law.
The defendant Liu Xiaobo, for the crime of incitement to overthrow state power, is sentenced to prison for 11 years and deprivation of political rights for two years. |
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