http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/world/asia/liu-xiaobo-chinese-dissident-message-from-prison.html 2014-12-10 20:26:42 Liu Xiaobo, Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident, Said to Send Message From Prison A Berlin-based friend of Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year sentence in Beijing, said he had a received a message from him through contacts in China. === BEIJING — A prominent Chinese writer living in Berlin said Wednesday that he had received a message from The writer, Liao Yiwu, who has known Mr. Liu for decades, declined to elaborate on how he received the message or what form it arrived in. The message said: “I am O.K. Here in prison, I have continually been able to read and think. In my studies, I have become even more convinced I have no personal enemies. The nimbus around me is shiny enough by now. I hope the world could pay more attention to other victims who are not well known, or not known at all!” Mr. Liao said he received the message early Tuesday from people in China. Mr. Liu has rarely if ever gotten messages out from his prison in Beijing, where “This is absolutely real,” Mr. Liao said. “It’s the first time I’ve received communication in all these years. I can’t say how I received it, but I know it is genuine. It is touching to hear this from him.” Mr. Liu was detained by the police in 2008 after he helped write and circulate an online petition called Charter 08, calling for gradual political change in China that would eventually result in a Western-style democracy based on constitutional rights. Mr. Liu was formally charged in June 2009 with “inciting subversion of state power,” and on Dec. 25, 2009, he was given an 11-year prison sentence by a Beijing court. He Mr. Liao said he last heard from Mr. Liu in 2008, before he was detained, when Mr. Liao received via email a copy of Charter 08. Mr. Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, has been effectively held under house arrest in their Beijing apartment for three years. She Mr. Liao has been living in Germany since July 2011, when he violated a travel ban imposed on him by security officials by fleeing China through Vietnam.