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13 Facts About Liu Xianbin

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Liu Xianbin was an organizer of China Democracy Party, writer and signer of Charter 08.

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Liu Xianbin was born on October 2,1968, in Suining, Sichuan Province.

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In May 1989, Liu participated in the pro-democracy demonstrations as well as in student fasts and blocking the movement of military vehicles during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in and near Tiananmen Square on June 4.

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On December 28,1992, Liu Xianbin was sentenced to two and half years in prison for the crime of "counter revolutionary propaganda and incitement".

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Liu Xianbin was released in October 1993 after completing his sentence.

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In March 1998, Liu Xianbin wrote an open letter to the Ninth National People's Congress, demanding that the Chinese government improve human rights conditions and signed the Convention on Human Rights.

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Liu Xianbin arrived in Chongqing to set up the Sichuan branch for CDP.

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Liu Xianbin organized a nationwide rescue effort for Xu Wenli, Qin Yongmin and Wang Youcai.

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In 1999, Liu Xianbin was arrested in Beijing and was detained for a month in the Beijing Detention Center.

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Liu Xianbin noted in his account of his police interrogation of March 2010 that public security asked him about four articles that had appeared on foreign websites.

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Liu Xianbin concluded his account saying he was allowed to go home after interrogation this time, but his arrest was just a matter of time.

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Liu Xianbin slandered the people's democratic dictatorship political power led by the Chinese Communist Party as "autocratic rule" and on several occasions incited the overthrow of our country's political regime and socialist system.

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