1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preserving Liu Xiaobo Legacy of Freedom & Gold Medal Act . 2. Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) Liu Xiaobo was China’s most prominent advocate for democracy, human rights and freedom and a powerful voice for peaceful political reform. (2) Liu Xiaobo, along with other pro-democracy advocates, sought to raise the Chinese people’s awareness of their dignity and rights by publicly calling upon the Chinese Government to govern in accordance with its Constitution and the international human rights agreements it has ratified. (3) Liu Xiaobo, by his long and visionary leadership, has become the symbol of two generations of Chinese reformers—he unites the generation of student who protested at Tiananmen Square in 1989 and, through his role in Charter 08, a new generation of rights advocates, human rights lawyers, and intellectuals. (4) Liu Xiaobo, and so many other advocates for freedom, have suffered official retribution and imprisonment for daring to speak out against a range of human rights abuses across China. In addition, their family members have faced harassment and detention in response to their advocacy efforts, including Liu Xia, who was detained without charges in her home since 2010. (5) In December 2009, a Beijing court sentenced Liu Xiaobo to an eleven-year sentence in a Chinese prison for inciting subversion of state power , in part for his role in Charter 08, a document calling for human rights and political reform in China. (6) In May 2011, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion declaring that the Chinese government’s imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo contravened the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (7) In 2010, many persons from around the world nominated Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel Peace Prize, including the 14th Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and Vaclav Havel. In awarding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China , the Norwegian Nobel Committee noted that through