德国不“磕头” 照样很重要

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（德国之声中文网）中国几十年来都奉行"熊猫外交"。把中国独有的熊猫送给或者借给他国是中国表达特殊友好关系的方式。所以说，当默克尔和李克强在召开新闻发布会时宣布柏林动物园将得到一对大熊猫的时候，人们能够从她的脸上看到满意的表情。因为，自从习近平结束了对英国为期四天的访问，和英方签署了超过550亿欧元的合同后，人们就开始讨论德中时代的黄金期是否已经过去。

从默克尔此次访华中反正是看不到这种迹象。因为，除了大熊猫以外，中德两国经济界本周四（10月29日）签署了价值186亿欧元的合同。当记者问到，德国和英国是否都在争相成为中国在欧盟的"最爱"时，李克强总理强调，他本周五将要做的事情是从来没有过的。李克强将用一整天的时间陪默克尔拜访他的家乡安徽。
德国靠工业优势加分

所以，德国的中国问题专家桑德施耐德( Eberhard Sandschneider)极力反驳了德国墨卡托中国研究中心(MERICS)主任韩博天(Sebastian Heilmann)的说法。后者表示，在中欧关系中，英国和德国已经完成了"换岗"。但德国对外关系研究所所长桑德施耐德认为，这是一种错误的判断。因为德国从经济实力以及从欧元地区主导国家的地位来说对北京意义重大，而英国则不具备这样的实力。

有人指出，由于英国在接待从共产主义国家来访的客人时没有提及批判性问题，这样的做法会给英国加分。但德国政府却完全不赞同这种说法。默克尔显露出的自信表明，德国就算不给中国磕头，也照样能够继续是中国在欧洲最重要的伙伴。中德两国的贸易额是中法和中英贸易额的总合。默克尔在与李克强联合出席记者会时公开批评了中国一部备受争议的，加强对非政府组织监管力度的法律。默克尔警告称，非政府组织在社会发展过程中的意义重大。她强烈要求德国基金会在中国的工作不能受到限制。另据德国总理府发言人公布的消息，默克尔还在到访中国的第一天晚上就和中国的人权人士、维权律师、博客作家以及公民社会代表举行了会晤。


只是德国没有女王

默克尔用友好，但坚决地口气表达了她的态度。一方面，她赞扬了中国的长期规划，并为德国加入亚投行的决定作出辩护。她表示，中国在国际货币基金组织或世界银行中的地位与其全球第二大经济体的地位并不相符。但同时她也向中国在南中国海领土权争端中的做法提出警告，表示中国应该承认国际法庭的审判结果，不应该采取单边行动。

但不管默克尔表现的如何自信，人们能够感觉到英国人对习近平到访的欢呼雀跃还是让德国感觉不快。默克尔承认，中国当然愿意挑选接触某一个欧盟成员国，不愿意和大欧盟打交道。对此，她表态称："如果我们自己在欧洲不统一发声，那这就是我们自己的错"。默克尔当着李克强的面表示："我们也能给来自中国的客人安排漂亮的排场……只是我们德国没有女王。"

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Menschenrechtsbeauftragter Strässer verurteilt Verhaftungswelle gegen Anwälte in China

Erscheinungsdatum
13.07.2015

Anlässlich der seit dem 10. Juli andauernden Festnahmewelle gegen Rechtsanwälte erklärte der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Menschenrechtspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe, Christoph Strässer, heute (13.07.):

"Die Festnahme von bis zu 100 Anwälten und Mitarbeitern in Anwaltskanzleien in China verurteile ich. Das Ausmaß der Festnahmen und die öffentliche Diskreditierung der Anwälte in den staatlichen Medien sind präzedenzlos. Mit dieser Verhaftungswelle setzt die chinesische Regierung ein deutliches Signal: Kritik am System wird unterbunden, und sogar Anwälte müssen mit harten Strafen rechnen, wenn sie ihrer ureigenen Aufgabe, der Verteidigung ihrer Mandanten, nachgehen. Dieses Vorgehen steht in eklatantem Widerspruch zum erklärten Willen der chinesischen Regierung, Rechtsstaatlichkeit zu fördern.         

Ich bin darüber hinaus zutiefst beunruhigt, dass diese Aktion der Sicherheitsbehörden mit dem neuen nationalen Sicherheitsgesetz gerechtfertigt wird. Durch die vagen Formulierungen und die weite Fassung des Begriffs ‚nationale Sicherheit‘ sind Maßnahmen der Sicherheitsbehörden abgedeckt, ohne dass eine unabhängige Kontrolle oder Korrektur dieser Maßnahmen möglich wäre.         

Ich rufe die chinesische Führung auf, die verhafteten Anwälte freizulassen und deren Berufsausübung sowie die Verteidigung ihrer Mandanten nicht weiter zu beschränken. Außerdem fordere ich die chinesische Regierung auf, sich am selbst propagierten Willen zu mehr Rechtsstaatlichkeit messen zu lassen. Das nationale Sicherheitsgesetz in seiner jetzigen Form entspricht nicht rechtsstaatlichen Grundsätzen. Gesetze, die eine Einschränkung der bürgerlichen Rechte aufgrund der Bedrohung der nationalen Sicherheit erlauben, müssen klar definiert sein und eine unabhängige Kontrolle ermöglichen."


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Seit dem 10. Juli wurden in China landesweit zahlreiche Anwälte verhaftet, die in der Vergangenheit die Strafverteidigung von Menschenrechtsaktivisten übernommen hatten. Über den Verbleib zahlreicher Anwälte ist noch nichts bekannt; mit Anklagen und Verurteilungen zu hohen Haftstrafen ist zu rechnen. Die Sicherheitsbehörden rechtfertigen ihr Vorgehen mit der potentiellen Bedrohung für die nationale Sicherheit. Das nationale Sicherheitsgesetz wurde am 01.Juli durch den nationalen Volkskongress verabschiedet. Der VN-Hochkommissar für Menschenrechte hat das Gesetz bereits kritisiert.

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Chinese Police Open Fire as Marchers Protest the Death of Popular Tibetan Monk
2015-07-13


Over a thousand Tibetans gathered on Monday in Sichuan province’s Nyagchuka county to mourn the death in prison of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an influential and well-respected Buddhist monk, with Chinese security forces at one point firing shots to disperse protesters, Tibetan sources in the region and in exile said.

Though police opened fire “to control the crowd,” there were no immediate reports of injuries in the incident, a Tibetan living in Australia told RFA’s Tibetan Service, citing local contacts.

Separately, the India-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) confirmed that shots had been fired near government offices in Nyagchuka (in Chinese, Yajiang) county’s Thang Karma township.

“The security forces shot at the Tibetans. They also lobbed teargas shells to disperse the crowd,” TCHRD said on July 13, quoting a source.

“Security forces have been deployed in the area and the road between Lithang [Litang] and Nyagchuka counties has been blocked. Travel to the area has been strictly restricted,” TCHRD added.

The protesters had gathered to demand the return to Nyagchuka of the body of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, whose unexplained death at age 65 in the 13th year of a life sentence in prison was revealed by Tibetan sources and confirmed by local Chinese authorities on July 12.

Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who was widely popular among Tibetans for his efforts to protect Tibetan culture and the environment, had been imprisoned since 2002 following what rights groups and supporters described as a wrongful conviction on a bombing charge.

His initial death sentence in the case was later commuted to life imprisonment, but an assistant, Lobsang Dondrub, was executed almost immediately, prompting an outcry from rights activists who questioned the fairness of the trial.

Two of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s sisters had traveled two weeks ago to Sichuan’s provincial capital Chengdu to visit him in prison, but they were repeatedly blocked by authorities in their attempts to see him, a Tibetan living in Australia told RFA.

“They were told that they could see him next day, or next Monday, or next Sunday, and so on,” RFA’s source said, citing contacts in his native town in the region.

“On July 12, the Chinese authorities told them that they could see Rinpoche at 11:00 a.m., but they were then informed at about 12:00 noon that he had passed away,” the source said.

Police Prevent Top Chinese Rights Attorneys From Leaving The Country
2015-08-20  



China's feminist five — (clockwise from top left) Li Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan, Wei Tingting and Wang Man — were released on April 14, 2015.
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A defense attorney for one of the five Chinese feminists detained as they organized an anti-sexual harassment even for International Women's Day has been prevented from leaving the country, he told RFA on Thursday.

Liang Xiaojun, who represented women's rights activist Wu Rongrong after her detention alongside four fellow activists, was turned away as he tried to cross the border to board a plane to study in the United States.

"I, my wife and our child were about to go through immigration, and we were standing at the line, and they looked at my passport, and called somebody over," Liang said after returning from Beijing's International Airport. "That person took us to one side and said he had a few things to ask us."

"They had us wait awhile to one side, and they made a phone call to ask about it," he said.

Liang said he and his family waited there for around 20 minutes.

"The border police told us they had received notification from the Beijing police department that I was to be prevented from leaving the country on the grounds that it would harm national security," Liang said.

Liang said he couldn't imagine what he might have done to "endanger national security."

"He was just following orders," he said. "There was nothing in writing; it was a verbal notification."

However, Liang wrote on social media that he had made "mental preparations" for being stopped.

Liang and the rest of the feminists' defense team had previously called for all remaining charges against the feminist five — Li Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Wei Tingting, Wang Man, and Zheng Churan — who were detained ahead of International Women's Day and later released on "bail."

Liang is the latest in a line of human rights lawyers to be prevented from leaving the country since the ruling Chinese Communist Party began targeting the country's embattled legal profession in a nationwide police operation on July 9-10.

"Following the ... crackdown, at least five lawyers and one child have been restricted from leaving the country on grounds of 'endangering national security,'" the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group (CHRLCG) said in a statement on its website.

Liang said the charge of endangering national security is increasingly being used against the profession by police in recent weeks.

"Whether they are detaining lawyers or preventing them from leaving the country, they use the same charge," he said. "The details differ in each case, so some people have restrictions on their freedom, while some are prevented from leaving China.”

But Liang said the move was a misuse of state power.

"This is an abuse of the law, and a violation of citizens' rights," he said.

Others prevented from leaving

Hunan lawyer Cai Ying was prevented from leaving the country on Monday, while Guangdong lawyer Chen Wuquan was prevented from entering Hong Kong on Sunday, CHRLCG said.

On Aug. 11, Shanghai lawyer Zhong Jinhua was also turned back with his wife and two young children at Shanghai's Pudong airport, where they had planned to board a flight to the U.S. and forced to undergo a strip and body search, although no documentation was produced, it said.

Lawyer Si Weijiang was prevented from boarding a flight out of China at Pudong on the same day, also with no written notification.

And lawyer Zhang Qingfang, who defended jailed New Citizens' Movement founder Xu Zhiyong, was prevented from traveling to the U.S. with his child and the child of a friend on Aug. 3.

"Endangering state security" was given as the justification in all cases, the group said.

In recent weeks, police have detained or interrogated at least 269 lawyers, law firm staff, and associated human right activists, CHRLCG said.

More than 20 people remain in detention, 16 of them at undisclosed locations, while many more have been placed under surveillance, police warning or house arrest.

Article 12 of China’s Exit and Entry Administration Law provides for a Chinese citizen to be prohibited from exiting China "because the national security or interest may be compromised," but the criteria for such a decision are not defined.

Last month’s raid on the Fengrui public interest law firm in Beijing, in which rights lawyers Wang Yu, Zhou Shifeng, Huang Liqun, Liu Sixin and Wang Quanzhang have been accused of deliberately fomenting social unrest, was just the beginning of a much wider operation that has left the Chinese legal profession in a state of shock.

The move comes as the government intensifies a clampdown on all forms of civil society, including nongovernmental organizations, in an apparent bid to cleanse it of alleged "foreign influence."

Many who seek to help others defend their legal rights are accused of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," and sometimes the more serious national security offense of "incitement to subvert state power."

Reported by Yang Fan for RFA's Mandarin Service and by Wen Yuqing for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

China: International Law Requires the Immediate Release of Bao Zhuoxuan | Letter
October 21, 2015
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http://www.lrwc.org/china-international-law-requires-the-immediate-release-of-bao-zhuoxuan-letter/

Xi Jinping
General Secretary, Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
The State Council General Office
2 Fuyoujie
Xichengqu
Beijingshi 100017
People’s Republic of China

Guo Shengkun
Minister of Public Security
No.14, Donchang’anjie,
Dongchengqu, Beijing 100741
People’s Republic of China
Email:  gabzfwz@mps.gov.cn

Attention CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping and Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun

Re: International law requires the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan

We write on behalf of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a committee of Canadian lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law internationally. LRWC also campaigns for lawyers and other human rights defenders in danger because of their advocacy.
LRWC demands the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan, the return of his passport and removal of all impediments to his traveling to San Francisco California.

Illegal and Arbitrary Arrest, Detention and Treatment of Bao Zhuoxuan

In an illegal bid clearly intended to pressure and punish Bao Zhuoxuan’s parents, Chinese authorities arrested Bao Zhuoxuan, the 16-year-old son of human rights lawyers Wang Yu and Bao Longjun on 9 October 2015. The boy is reported to be under house arrest at the home of his grandparents in Ulanhot: his presence there and the conditions of his detention have not been confirmed by anyone independent of the Government of the People’s Republic of China. Bao Zhuoxuan was arrested by uniformed Chinese police in Mong La, Myanmar while he was enroute to the United States to stay with a family friend, Liang Bo, during his parents’ illegal detention. Liang Bo had been planning to host Mr. Bao Zhuoxuan in the San Francisco area in the absence of his parents.  Wang Yu and Bao Longjun were arrested 9 July 2015 and their whereabouts are unknown.[1] State authorities report that they are being held “under residential surveillance at a designated place.” A recent video of Wang Yu making a forced statement confirms that she is still alive, but her whereabouts, and the conditions under which she and her husband are currently detained, are unknown. Wang Yu and Bao Longjun have been detained for over three months without legal authorization, without access to legal representation and without judicial oversight. Their arrest and detention and the arrest and detention of their son are in gross violation of both Chinese domestic law and China’s international law obligations as a member of the United Nations and as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. LRWC considers the three members of this family to be victims of enforced disappearance.

Journalist Philip Wen was en route to the home of Bao Zhuoxuan’s grandparents when his team was intercepted by four police officers dressed in plain clothes. At the local police station, while asking questions about their credentials, “the officers largely refused to answer questions about Zhuoxuan’s welfare – and when they did, they provided conflicting accounts”, reports Wen. One said “Zhuoxuan had a cold and was running a high fever; another said he was in school”. Three policemen allegedly said the teenager had been “tricked” into crossing the Myanmar border, and “regretted” doing so. After some time, the police were able to determine that the reporters were in fact in Ulanhot legally and had not contravened any regulations. But in China foreign journalists require the permission of an interviewee before conducting interviews. Police in China of course routinely declare that prospective interviewees have declined to grant an interview, without the proposed interviewee ever appearing in person. The police said both the boy and his grandmother had declined to be interviewed, and escorted the journalists to the airport for their return flights to Beijing.

Bao Zhuoxuan’s case has received international attention; a report by the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China recommended that lawmakers and administration officials raise it with the Chinese government. The U.S. State Department said it was concerned over reports that Bao Zhuoxuan, the underage son of detained rights lawyers Wang Yu and Bao Longjun, had been put under house arrest in Inner Mongolia. Spokesman John Kirby said in a statement “We urge China to uphold its international human rights commitments and protect the health and safety of this minor child”. “We are also concerned about an apparent systematic campaign of China to persecute relatives of Chinese citizens who peacefully question the official policy and work to protect the rights of others.” “We call on China to remove restrictions on freedom of movement for Bao Zhuoxuan, and again urge China to release Wang Yu and (her husband) Bao Longyun unconditionally”.


Violation of International Obligations by China

Actions that constitute grave violations of China’s international law obligations include the:
Unlawful and arbitrary arrest and detention of Bao Zhuoxuan;
Unjustified prevention of Bao Zhuoxuan from leaving China;
Denial of timely and confidential access to a legal representative of choice;
Denial of judicial review of the legality of the arrest, detention and treatment of Bao Zhuoxuan by a competent, impartial and independent tribunal;

Use by Chinese authorities of harm or threats of harm to Bao Zhuoxuan to coerce confessions from or force compliance by Wang Yu and Bao Longjun;
Use by Chinese authorities of harm or threats of harm to Wang Yu and Bao Longjun to coerce a confession from or force compliance by Bao Zhuoxuan.

These actions by officials acting at the behest of the Government of the People’s Republic of China are grave violations of China’s international law obligations to ensure the protected rights of Bao Zhuoxuan and to prevent and punish violations of those rights. The internationally protected rights of Bao Zhuoxuan which Chinese authorities have violated include his rights to: liberty; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; timely and confidential access to legal representation; judicial review of the legality of his arrest, detention and treatment by a competent, impartial and independent tribunal; equality and non-discrimination; freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and the right to be treated as a child.

In addition, the arbitrary and unlawful arrest and detention of Bao Zhuoxuan is discriminatory, having been carried out solely because of his status as the son of Wang Yu and Bao Longjun, two human rights lawyers whom China wants to silence. The denial of judicial oversight and access to legal representation constitutes a contravention of the non-derogable prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment that is part of international customary law and a provision of all the above-noted treaties signed, acceded to or ratified by China. The European Court of Human Rights (El-Masri v. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Application no. 39630/09) unanimously held, inter alia, that incommunicado confinement in a hotel for 23 days outside any judicial framework was inhuman and degrading treatment prohibited by the Convention against Torture.

China has accepted and is bound by legal obligations to protect the rights of Bao Zhuoxuan and to effectively prevent and punish violations arising from the: Charter of the United Nations (19 October 1945), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (voted in favour 10 December 1948); Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (4 October 1988); Convention on the Rights of the Child (2 March 1992); and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (signed 5 October 1998). As a state party to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (acceded to 3 September 1997) China has additionally agreed not to “invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.” (Article 27)

In 1945 China accepted the obligation set out in Article 55 of the Charter of the United Nations to promote “universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”[2]
These obligations are repeated and have been accepted by China, in all the above-mentioned human rights treaties. As a current member of the UN Human Rights Council China must, in accordance with Resolution A/RES/60/251 of April 2006, “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights, shall fully cooperate with the Council and be reviewed under the universal periodic review mechanism during their term of membership.”

LRWC demands the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan, the return of his passport and removal of all impediments preventing him from traveling to San Francisco, California in accordance with China’s international law obligations.
 
Sincerely,
 
Gail Davidson                                                 Clive Ansley
Executive Director, LRWC                             Barrister and Solicitor
China Monitor, LRWC

Copied to:
His Excellency Ambassador Wu Hailong
Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations in Geneva
11, chemin de Surville 1213 Petit-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland
Email: chinamission_gva@mfa.gov.cn

Mr. Wang Junfeng
All China Lawyers Association
5/F., Qinglan Plaza
No. 24, Dongsishitiao,
Dongchengqu, Beijing 100007, People’s Republic of China

Ms. Mónica Pinto
Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
8-14 Avenue de la Paix 1211, Geneva 10, Switzerland
E-mail: SRindependenceJL@ohchr.org

Juan Mendez, Special Rapporteur on Torture
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
E-mail: urgent-action@ohchr.org

Ambassador Guy Saint-Jacques
Canadian Embassy
19 Dongzhimenwai Dajie
Chao Yang District
Beijing 100600 PRC
Email: beijing-pa@international.gc.ca

Ambassador Elissa Goldberg
Permanent Canadian Mission to Geneva
5 Avenue de l’Ariana 1202, Geneva, Switzerland
E-mail: genev-gr@international.gc.ca

[1] For more information see, Mass arrest, detention and disappearance of lawyers and other rights advocates in China, LRWC, 16 September, 2015. Online at http://www.lrwc.org/china-mass-arrest-detention-and-disappearance-of-lawyers-and-other-rights-advocates-in-china-report/
[2] Ibid, art 55.

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Five Years On, Liu Xiaobo's Wife Stays Silent, Under House Arrest
2015-10-08  

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/silence-10082015111519.html



Liu Xia (r) and rights lawyer Mo Shaoping (l) arrive at her brother Liu Hui's trial in Beijing on April 23, 2013.
 AFP



Five years after being awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, activists are calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to release his wife Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest at the couple's Beijing apartment since her husband's award was announced.

Beijing rights activist Hu Jia, a close friend of the Lius, said the Nobel award has had huge repercussions for the activist's entire extended family.

"[Liu Xia's] brother was sentenced to 11 years in jail, which was entirely because of his connection to the Lius," Hu told RFA.

"But the worst persecution has been the way they have cut off Liu Xia's communication with the outside world, and silenced her," he said.

While Liu Hui has since been released from prison, he remains under bail conditions, and is an important form of leverage over Liu Xia, Hu said.

"Basically, they are effectively saying to Liu Xia that if she has any contact with the outside world, people like me, foreign diplomats or journalists, then they can put her brother back in jail again," he said.

"So she has no way to speak out either on her husband's behalf, or her own."

Hong Kong-based campaigner Richard Choi said his group, the Patriotic Alliance for the Democratic Movement in China, has been campaigning for Liu's release and on behalf of Liu Xia since her husband's sentencing to 11 years' imprisonment on Dec. 25, 2009 for "incitement to subvert state power."

"All Chinese citizens should speak out for Liu Xiaobo," Choi said, adding that 2015 Nobel medical prize-winner Tu Youyou should add her voice to those calling for Liu's release.

"I think Tu Youyou should also call on the Chinese government [to release him]," he said.

"Five years after Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, I want to call once more on the Chinese government to release him immediately," Choi said.

"Chinese people should be proud of our fellow citizen, Liu Xiaobo, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize," Choi told RFA.

Hu said he is being prevented from leaving his apartment on Thursday, for fear he should use the day to carry out some form of protest on their behalf.

"Today is treated the same as Dec. 10; they are both taboo dates, and whenever they roll around, I am held under house arrest at home," Hu said.

"I heard the state security police talking about it, and they said I wasn't to be allowed to leave my apartment," he said.

Hu said he would mark the day at home in his own way, however.

Parole denied

In June 2014, the authorities turned down an application for parole from Liu's lawyers, who said he can't make a fresh request for another three years from that date.

In the application, Liu, 60, criticized the prison authorities for denying him the right to be in contact with friends and family, which is against China's Constitution.

However, he is unlikely to qualify for parole, because he has never admitted to committing any crime.

His lawyers say Liu still follows political developments in China, where the administration of President Xi Jinping  launched a nationwide police operation that has detained nearly 300 rights attorneys, paralegals, and legal activists since early July.

Liu Xiaobo's continued imprisonment was cited by rights groups as an emblem of Beijing's poor record during Xi's state visit to the United States last month.

A literary critic and former professor, Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" in a decision that infuriated Beijing, which says he has broken Chinese law.

He has been held since 2008 after helping to draft Charter 08, a manifesto calling for sweeping changes in China's government that was signed by thousands of supporters.

Reported by Xin Lin for RFA's Mandarin Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

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