China rejects calls to release dissident Liu Xiaobo
China has angrily rejected calls by the US and the EU to release the prominent intellectual dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Mr Liu is facing up to 15 years in jail for organising a pro-democracy petition and writing essays critical of the ruling Communist Party.
The case of the 53-year-old former literature professor, who is accused of "inciting subversion of state power", is now attracting a growing international outcry from governments and civil rights groups campaigning for his release.
Mr Liu, who spent 20 months in jail for supporting the students during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, was arrested in December 2008 for his role as architect of the Charter 08 petition calling for an end to one-party rule in China.
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Mr Liu is facing up to 15 years in jail for organising a pro-democracy petition and writing essays critical of the ruling Communist Party.
The case of the 53-year-old former literature professor, who is accused of "inciting subversion of state power", is now attracting a growing international outcry from governments and civil rights groups campaigning for his release.
Mr Liu, who spent 20 months in jail for supporting the students during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, was arrested in December 2008 for his role as architect of the Charter 08 petition calling for an end to one-party rule in China.