Jailed activist Liu was a participant 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 same year , the same year Teng Biao was given an 11-year sentence . `` He is really forcing himself to look at this in order that other people do n't forget , because it has been such a publicly erased moment in history in China , '' says fellow poet Jeffrey Yang , who is based in the U.S. Liu was a fervent participant of the 1989 pro-democracy movement . Friend and fellow activist Liu Xiaobo recites an extract from the moving poem .
Jailed activist Liu was a participant 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 same year , the same year Teng Biao was given an 11-year sentence . Friend and fellow activist Liu Xiaobo recites an extract from the moving poem .