Liu Xiaobo’s “Greed’s Prisoner”
Liu Xia and Victoria Redel read from “Greed’s Prisoner (for the dispossessed wife),” a poem by Liu Xia’s husband, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.
This message was delivered in 2006. On December 8, 2008, Liu Xiaobo was arrested in Beijing. More than a year later, on Christmas Day 2009, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his writings.
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