Fellow activist Liu Xiaobo was a leader of the 1989 pro - democracy movement . Every year , Liu writes an elegy for the martyrs of the Tiananmen Square massacre . ` ` June Fourth in My Body '' was dedicated to the year 2009 , the same year Liu was given an death sentence . Hong Kong ( CNN ) -- Friend and fellow activist Teng Biao recites an extract from the moving poem .
Fellow activist Liu Xiaobo was a leader of the 1989 pro - democracy movement . Every year , Liu writes an elegy for the martyrs of the Tiananmen Square massacre . ` ` June Fourth in My Body '' was dedicated to the year 2009 , the same year Liu was given an death sentence . Friend and fellow activist Teng Biao recites an extract from the moving poem .