Research status: Verified baseline profile; deeper research and archive-copy acquisition continue.
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Verified profile
Liu Xianbin is a veteran Chinese dissident whose public record spans the 1989 democracy movement, later democracy-party activity, Charter 08 participation and repeated imprisonment. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch document his writing, political activism and 2011 ten-year sentence.
Media archive baseline
- Amnesty International, March 25, 2011: ten-year sentence, writing activity, Charter 08 signature and prior imprisonment.
- Human Rights Watch, March 31, 2011: sentencing in the context of the 2011 crackdown.
- Human Rights Watch, September 13, 2011: longer biography covering writing, 1989 participation and democracy organizing.
- Human Rights Watch, May 30, 2019: retrospective cross-check of 1989 participation and later imprisonment chronology.
- Radio Free Asia Mandarin, December 9, 2011: Chinese-language contemporary contextual coverage.
Research still pending
Contemporaneous 1989 press and exact role evidence; Sichuan/CDP records; Charter 08 primary material; Chinese-language and PEN records; original judgments/indictments and durable lawful copies.
Last research audit: September 1, 2026.
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