Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo

Memories of the 1989 Tiananmen Crackdown
On Oct. 28, 2008, Liu eulogized the Chinese historian Bao Zunxin at his grave on the first anniversary of his death. Bao had lent considerable support to the pro-democracy demonstrators who took over Beijing's iconic central square in the spring of 1989 — and, after the crackdown, Bao was among the first arrested. Among those taken with him was Liu, the future Nobelist, who had flown back to China from New York to take part in a Tiananmen hunger strike. He would serve two years in prison. Little more than a month after this photo was taken, Liu would once again be taken into custody by the authorities.

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