dr. l u u xiapo wrvment awarded the peace price in 2010 sits today in a chinese jail for the crime of subversion. a poet, author, and political scientist, dr. lu was in 1989 a visiting scholar at columbia university. but when the pro-democracy protests broke out in beijing in june of that year, he returned to china to aid the movement. he staged a hunger strike in tiananmen square in the midst of the historic student protests and insisted the protests would be nonviolent, even in the face of the violence threatened by the people's republic of china. the p.r.c. arrested lu for his involvement in the tiananmen square demonstration and sentenced him to two years in prison. in 1996 the party subjected him to three years of reeducation through labor for questioning the single-party system. in 2004, the p.r.c. cut lu's phone lines and internet connection, after he published and essay criticizing the party's campaign to silence so-called suber havive journalists and activists. in 2008 lu along with over 350 chinese intellectuals and human rights advocates penned charter 08, a manifesto modeled after th