Nobel price winner Liu Xiaobo was sentenced on Christmas Day 2009 for helping to draft a manifesto - Charter '08 - calling for political change.At the time he had been speaking out for 20 years, although he was still a relatively unknown figure both inside and outside China.People have been detained, prosecuted and sometimes simply scared, in an apparent attempt to curtail their already limited activities. (Source : bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15195263)
"They're doing it because they want freedom," said the man, a livestock trader who asked that his name not be used because of safety concerns.
He paused before adding, "Because we want freedom."
(Source ;csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/1102/China-s-crackdown-grows-as-Tibetan-self-immolations-increase)Pema Rinchen, who writes under pen name "Stinger", was arrested by the Public Security Bureau in Dragko in Karze in eastern Tibet on 5 July. He was then severely beaten and admitted in a local hospital the next day, according to reports.
(Source :thetibetpost.com/en/news/tibet/1855-chinese-authorities-continue-crackdown-on-tibetan-writers)
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