Word: xiaobo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zhang Xiaobo is co-author of China Can Say No, a 1996 book of essays warning of a U.S.-led plot to contain China
...with the same accusations. Charges of inciting counterrevolutionary agitation and propaganda have reportedly been -- or will soon be -- brought against at least nine other Tiananmen Square activists, including Wang Dan, 25, the Peking University student who helped set up the student forum known as the Democracy Salon, and Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic and lecturer at Beijing Normal University. A guilty verdict for counterrevolutionary activity carries a sentence of at least five years in jail; subversion carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in jail, but could also mean life imprisonment or death...