Liu Xiaobo
Born
28th December 1955 Changchun, China
Died
13th July 2017, Shenyang, China
before the end of his 11 year imprisonment
Born
28th December 1955 Changchun, China
Died
13th July 2017, Shenyang, China
before the end of his 11 year imprisonment
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Liu Xiaobo and his writing will live long beyond his death.
Link here to Liu Xiaobo's I HAVE NO ENEMIES, full statement read by Liv Ullman at Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Lecture in Absentia 2010 https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/xiaobo-lecture.html https://youtu.be/2VUfQ9LfN5Y Link to the video 
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NO ENEMIES
NO ENEMIES - LIU XIAOBO (2013) 4 mins
Directed and drawn by Trish McAdam
Read by Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Ariel Dorfman, Mark Kilroy and Adam Shapiro.
Motion Graphics - Marc Sherwin
Music - David Blanc
Charcoal animation and After Effects - 4mins Nominated for the ICCL Human Rights Film Award 2013 - Gala Screening in the Lighthouse Cinema
No Enemies spearheads a campaign by Front Line Defenders and PEN International demanding the release of imprisoned Chinese human rights defender Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, who is under house arrest. The campaign is part of a larger international effort to secure the freedom of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and has as its centre a petition which has been signed by nearly half a million people all over the world.
The video is inspired by I Have No Enemies, a statement Liu Xiaobo prepared for his trial on 25 December 2009, where he was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment on subversion charges. His wife, an artist and photographer, was subsequently forcibly confined to her apartment in Beijing and has remained under guard and largely isolated from the outside world for over two years. She has not been accused – or found guilty – of any crime.
Front Line Defenders urges you to watch this video and absorb the deeply moving words of this remarkable individual, who despite years of suffering, remains unbowed yet free of hate, steeled by the love of his wife. Log on to www.lighthonestyhrd.org, sign the petition and join with thousands of others demanding the release of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia.
Shortlisted for the Irish Council of Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Award 2013
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/breaking-hearts-winning-minds-1.1429011
Directed and drawn by Trish McAdam
Read by Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Ariel Dorfman, Mark Kilroy and Adam Shapiro.
Motion Graphics - Marc Sherwin
Music - David Blanc
Charcoal animation and After Effects - 4mins Nominated for the ICCL Human Rights Film Award 2013 - Gala Screening in the Lighthouse Cinema
No Enemies spearheads a campaign by Front Line Defenders and PEN International demanding the release of imprisoned Chinese human rights defender Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, who is under house arrest. The campaign is part of a larger international effort to secure the freedom of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and has as its centre a petition which has been signed by nearly half a million people all over the world.
The video is inspired by I Have No Enemies, a statement Liu Xiaobo prepared for his trial on 25 December 2009, where he was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment on subversion charges. His wife, an artist and photographer, was subsequently forcibly confined to her apartment in Beijing and has remained under guard and largely isolated from the outside world for over two years. She has not been accused – or found guilty – of any crime.
Front Line Defenders urges you to watch this video and absorb the deeply moving words of this remarkable individual, who despite years of suffering, remains unbowed yet free of hate, steeled by the love of his wife. Log on to www.lighthonestyhrd.org, sign the petition and join with thousands of others demanding the release of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia.
Shortlisted for the Irish Council of Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Award 2013
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/breaking-hearts-winning-minds-1.1429011