`` June 4 was a life-changing and defining date for Liu . Jailed activist Liu Xiaobo was a participant of the 1989 pro-democracy movement . Every year , Liu writes an elegy for the martyrs of the Tiananmen Square massacre . Hide Caption Friend and fellow activist Teng Biao recites an extract from the moving poem .
Jailed activist Liu Xiaobo was a participant of the 1989 pro-democracy movement . Every year , Liu writes an elegy for the martyrs of the Tiananmen Square massacre . Hide Caption Friend and fellow activist Teng Biao recites an extract from the moving poem .