RadioFreeAsia, 2013-11-18

Jailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate and veteran dissident Liu Xiaobo is to appeal against his conviction and 11-year jail term for “incitement to subvert state power,” his lawyer said on Monday.

( In the picture : A portrait of Liu Xiaobo hangs near the empty chair placed in his honor during the ceremony in Oslo, Norway in which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia on Dec. 10, 2010.)

Jailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate and veteran dissident Liu Xiaobo is to appeal against his conviction and 11-year jail term for “incitement to subvert state power,” his lawyer said on Monday.

Liu, who has been held for nearly five years over his writing calling for political reform in China, approved the appeal bid in person during one of the regular visits from his wife Liu Xia, the dissident’s lawyer Mo Shaoping told RFA.

“Liu Xiaobo has never accepted the verdict and sentence passed on him,” Mo said.

“Liu Xia told us that he had agreed [to the appeal] during her most recent visit to Liu Xiaobo [in jail],” he said.

“We hope to have a meeting with Liu Xiaobo as provided for under Chinese law, and to begin communicating with him and getting his opinion on the appeal materials we are preparing.”

He said the authorities in Jinzhou Prison in northeast China’s Liaoning province, where Liu is serving the prison sentence handed down in 2009, had so far refused permission for Liu to receive visits from his legal team. …(…)

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