在博讯上看到刘霞写的呼吁信，想起刘霞，想起刘晓波，想起他们家里挂满了刘霞的画和摄影，想起晓波经常爱说“我媳妇……”，想起我们在一起吃饭时晓波总爱给刘霞夹菜，想起，想起，想起……
转帖刘霞的呼吁，为的是表达一份支持；如果要签名，我还签名。
刘霞：呼吁释放我的丈夫刘晓波
我的丈夫刘晓波是08宪章的主要起草人之一。08宪章以前捷克斯洛伐克的77宪章为蓝本，呼吁在中国进行全面的政治改革，包括建立民主政府，以普世公认的标准保障人权。2008年12月10日是世界人权宣言签署60周年，这一天08宪章由300多中国公民签署发布，截至今天联署者已超过8000人。
很明显，08宪章在全体华人中引起了共鸣。也许正是因为这个原因，当局认为我的丈夫对国家政权构成了危险。2008年12月8日，中国警方在未出示逮捕证的情况下逮捕了我的丈夫，并被拘押至今，尽管他们从未对他提出任何控罪。
尽管由于参与起草08宪章，我的丈夫陷入了困境，但我相信晓波没有后悔。他一向坚定地致力于促进并保障中国人的人权，特别是那些弱势群体的人权。事实上，这已经是我第四次亲眼目睹他被警察从家中拖走。在此之前，他曾因参加1989年天安门广场的民主运动而被监禁半年。 1996年，由于他撰写文章呼吁民主自由，再次被判入狱三年。2006年，他又一次被北京警方拘押，持续审问12个小时后才被释放。
虽然我和丈夫深知起草并签署08宪章可能带来的后果，但丈夫被拘留仍然给我们两人带来了巨大的痛苦。很早以前，我们俩人就商定不生孩子，不论是男孩女孩，父亲被投入监狱对于他们来说总是件十分残酷的事儿。所以，我们现在还是独身。丈夫被拘押后，我们只能靠书信联系，俩人不断地给对方写信，虽然我们知道这样的信件也许对方永远不会收到。在他被绑架的近4个月来，当局只允许我们见了两次面。我被带到一个秘密地点，我和丈夫一边吃饭一边谈话，狱警一刻不停地在旁边监视着我们。谈话中我了解到，他一直被单独关押在一个小房间里，里面只有一盏灯泡。我带给他的60多本书，多数都被监狱官员没收。想到他在监狱里孤苦伶仃的生活，我感到难以忍受。
现在我担心，政府正在准备对他进行审判，试图以“煽动颠覆国家政权罪”来判决他。当局经常用这个罪名来惩处持不同政见者，一旦按这个罪名判决刑期通常十分漫长。警方已经传唤、调查了几乎所有的原始签署者，这是在搜集“证据”以便给我丈夫“定罪”。他们这样做，也是在向所有的民主运动参与者发出明确的信号，告诉他们当局不会容忍持不同政见者。
我恳求奥巴马总统能够过问我丈夫的案子，向中国政府表达让我的丈夫重获自由的希望。我的丈夫没有做错任何事，他被监禁不仅是我个人的大不幸，也是无数和他一样渴望国家自由民主，却又没有正常表达渠道的中国人的巨大悲剧。请奥巴马总统站在刘晓波一边，帮助我实现与丈夫团圆的梦想。
作者为刘晓波之妻，居北京。英文由华盛顿的人权组织劳改研究基金会翻译。刊载于4/16/2009 《华盛顿邮报》
An Appeal for a Chinese Dissident
By Xia Liu
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Washington Post, 4/16/2009
BEIJING -- My husband, Liu Xiaobo, was one of the primary drafters of a document known as Charter 08. Modeled after the Charter 77 petition created in the former Czechoslovakia, Charter 08 calls for comprehensive political reforms in China, including the establishment of a democratic government and the protection of universally recognized human rights. It was signed and issued by more than 300 Chinese citizens on Dec. 10, 2008, the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to date it has been signed online by more than 8,000 others.
Charter 08 has clearly resonated with everyday Chinese people. Perhaps this is why my husband, who was arrested on Dec. 8 by Chinese police without an arrest warrant, was seen as such a threat to the regime that he remains in police custody today, even though no charges have been brought against him.
Despite the hardship that his involvement in the Charter 08 movement has caused him, I am sure that Xiaobo has no regrets. He is deeply committed to promoting and protecting the rights of all people, particularly those who do not enjoy the advantages that he has as an intellectual. Indeed, this was the fourth time that I have had to witness my husband being dragged from our home by Chinese police. He previously served half a year in prison for his participation in the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. In 1996, he was taken away and sent to prison for three more years for promoting freedom and democracy in his writings. Then, in 2006, he was once again taken into custody and was interrogated for 12 hours before being released.
Although my husband and I were fully aware of the possible retaliation that his advocacy might inspire, his detention is still very painful for us both. We agreed long ago that we would not have a child, as it would be too cruel to subject him or her to the absence of an imprisoned father. Thus, we are both alone now. We write to each other constantly, knowing our letters will never reach each other. In the nearly four months since his abduction, authorities have allowed me only two visits with him. After being taken to an undisclosed location, I was permitted to talk with him as we shared a meal under the unremitting surveillance of prison guards. During our conversations, I learned that he has been confined alone to a small room lit by a single light bulb and that most of the more than 60 books I had brought him were confiscated by prison officials. It is difficult for me to bear the extent of his isolation.
Now I fear that the government is preparing to stage a show trial and convict my husband of "inciting the subversion of state power," a charge frequently leveled against political dissidents and one that typically carries a lengthy prison sentence. Police have summoned and investigated nearly all of the original signatories of Charter 08, as they gather "evidence" of my husband's "crime." In doing so, they are sending a clear signal to others in the democratic movement that dissent will not be tolerated.
I implore President Obama to intervene on my husband's behalf and to express to the Chinese government his wish that my husband be freed. My husband has done nothing wrong, and his imprisonment is a great tragedy not only for me but also for the countless people of my country who lack a voice but share his desire to see China become a free, democratic nation. Please, President Obama, stand in solidarity with Liu Xiaobo, and help me to be reunited with my husband.
The writer lives in Beijing. Her column was translated by the Laogai Research Foundation, a Washington group working to expose human rights violations in China.
可能至少要关押到“六＊四”后才有机会出来。
回复删除刘霞:美国笔会自由写作奖答谢辞
回复删除先生们，女士们：
很遗憾，刘晓波和我都不能到场领奖。
26年前，我们都写现代诗，并以诗为媒介，相识相知相爱，直至发生20年前那场史无前例的学潮和屠杀。刘晓波义无反顾地置身其间，成为家喻户晓的六四黑手。他的命运也由此改变，数次入狱，在家的时间也多半不自由。作为妻子，我别无选择地成了丈夫不幸命运的一部分。
但是，我不是刘晓波的附庸，我酷爱诗歌和绘画，同时，我也没把刘晓波仅仅看作一个政治人物。他始终是笨拙而勤奋的诗人，即使在狱中，他也没放弃写诗，狱卒搜走纸笔，他就凭空构思着。这20年来，他和我的这种用于心灵对话的爱情诗，已经积累了几百首。其中一首这样写道：
进入坟墓前
别忘了用骨灰给我写信
别忘了留下阴间的地址
另一位中国诗人廖亦武这样评论刘晓波的诗：他背负着六四亡灵在爱、在恨、在祈祷。这样的作品同样可以写于纳粹集中营或俄国十二月党人的流放途中，就像“奥斯维辛之后写诗是野蛮的”，适合八九后的中国国情。
然而，我明白，这个奖在名义上，不是鼓励诗人刘晓波，而是鼓励《零八宪章》的起草人、政论家刘晓波。我提醒大家注意这两个身份之间的联系。我觉得刘晓波正是以诗人的激情在推动中国的民主，以诗人的激情一再对独裁者说不！不！不！
在私底下，他却以诗人的温情，对六四至今得不到安息的冤魂们，对我，对他亲爱的朋友们一再说是。是。是。
感谢美国笔会。感谢独立中文笔会。感谢在场的每一位先生和女士。
刘霞于2009年4月17日，不自由的北京家中
(Translated into English byTienchi M.-Liao)
Thanks to the American PEN for awarding Liu Xiaobo to the Freedom of expression prize
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a pity that both my husband Liu Xiaobo and I could not be present this evening to receive this award.
Twenty six years ago, both of us were writing modern poetry. It is through our poetry that we became acquainted and eventually fell in love. Six years later, the unprecedented student democratic movement and massacre occurred in Beijing. Xiaobo dutifully stood his ground, and, consequently, became widely known as one of the so-called June 4th "black hands." His life then changed forever. He has been put into jail several times, and even when he is at home, he is still, for the most part, not a free man. As his wife, I have no other choice but to become a part of his unfortunate life.
Yet, I am not a vassal of Liu Xiaobo. I am very fond of poetry and painting, but at the same time, I have not come to view Xiaobo as a political figure. In my eyes, he has always been and will always be an awkard and diligent poet. Even in prison, he has continued to write his poems. When the warden took away his paper and pen, he simply pulled his verse out of thin air. Over the past twenty years, Xiaobo and I have accumulated hundreds of such poems, which were born of the conversations between our souls. I would like to quote one here:
Before you enter the grave
Don’t forget to write me with your ashes
Do not forget to leave your address in the nether world
Another Chinese poet, Liao Yiwu, has commented on Xiaobo’s poem: “He carries the burden of those who died on June 4th in his love, in his hatred and in his prayers. Such poems could have been written in the Nazi’s concentration camps or by the Decembrist during the exile in Imperial Russia. I also want to quote the famous sentence: ‘It is barbaric to write poetry after Ausschwitz’”. Such statements are also characteristic of the situation in China after 1989.
I understand, however, this award is not meant to encourage Liu Xiaobo, the poet, but rather to encourage Liu Xiaobo, the political commentator and initiator of Charter 08. I would like to remind everyone of the close connection between these two identities. I feel that Xiaobo is using his intensity and passion as a poet to push the democracy movement forward in China. He shouts passionately as a poet “no, no, no” to the dictators.
In private, he whispers gently to the dead souls of June 4th, who, to this day, have not received justice, as well as to me and to all his dear friends: “yes, yes.”
Finally, I extend my deepest gratitude to the PEN American Center, the Independent Chinese PEN and everyone in attendance at this event tonight.
Liu Xia, April 17th, 2009 at my not free home in Beijing
杰出作家刘晓波在纽约获奖
回复删除（2008年4月29日纽约讯）在聚焦中国人权纪录之夜，美国笔会于星期二将2009年笔会暨芭芭拉·戈德史密斯自由写作奖，授予中国最杰出的异议作家兼活动家之一、国际笔会运动重要领导人刘晓波。刘晓波因合写了一份关于政治和人权改革的呼吁书，于 2008年12月8日被关押，未予诉罪或审判而“监视居住”在北京一未知地点。
知识分子和文学评论家刘晓波的成年生活，大部分是作为中国政府的打击目标而渡过的。他在八九民主运动中起了重要作用，到天安门广场进行绝食支持学生，并带头呼吁一个真正具有广泛基础的可持续的民主运动。他通过支持和推动呼吁学生非暴力，防止了广场上更进一步的流血。即使在为此系狱两年后，刘晓波仍继续为言论自由和民主说和写。从1996年起，他又在劳教所中渡过了 三年，此后经常遭到关押、骚扰和监视，直到他最近这次被拘捕。
刘晓波昨晚因其生平贡献获奖，包括他一直担任独立中文笔会领导人。独立中文笔会是一个在中国勇敢进行脚踏实地倡导工作的国际文学和人权组织，尽管遭到中国当局持续打压。刘晓波在2003-2007年担任该会会长，现任理事。
昨晚，独立中文笔会副秘书长李江琳宣读了刘晓波妻子刘霞的感人致辞。她说：“我明白，这个奖在名义上，不是鼓励诗人刘晓波，而是鼓励《零八宪章》的起草人、政论家刘晓波。我提醒大家注意这两个身份之间的联系。我觉得刘晓波正是以诗人的激情在推动中国的民主，以诗人的激情一再对独裁者说不！不！不！”
“在私底下，他却以诗人的温情，对六四至今得不到安息的冤魂们，对我，对他亲爱的朋友们一再说是！是！是！”她最后说。
2008年12月8日，刘晓波以涉嫌“煽动颠覆国家政权”被拘捕。拘捕发生在《零八宪章》公布的前夕，这份他合写的不寻常的声明呼吁政治改革、更多人权和终止一党专制。警方于晚上9时到达他家， 11时将其拘禁，并抄家没收了电脑和其他物品。自他被拘押以来，几乎所有《零八宪章》首批签署者都遭到传讯，以收集对付他的证据。尽管有这种打压，《零八宪章》目前已经得到中国各地超过8500各界人士联署。
笔会会员爱德华•阿尔比在晚会上说：“艺术能改变事物，抗议真的造成很大差别。我要对刘说得话很简单，‘谢谢你在做的一切。请继续下去，我们与你同在！’”
美国笔会是国际笔会在全世界的145个分会之一。国际笔会致力推进世界各地作家间的友谊和理性合作，为言论自由奋斗，代表世界文学的良知。美国笔会和独立中文笔会一直共同合作，抗议中国当局对作家和新闻工作者的监禁、骚扰、监控，致力于结束中国对互联网的监控和对自由写作的种种限制。更多信息请访问：www.pen.org/china.
联系人： 美国笔会拉里·赛姆斯（Larry Siems），(212) 334-1660 ext. 111, lsiems@pen.org
劉霞女士：
回复删除你是多摩的令人尊敬！20多年前，我還在中國大陸，和一幫朋友，愛文學和民主自由，還曾經是詩人，哈哈。。。。現在，他們中，有的人在大陸，成了中產，也成了共產黨的喉舌，別說民主，自由，在他們心目中，連基本的人格也沒有：虛偽、貪財、、、、中國作家，是什麼？現在，覺得很幸福，因為，我不用靠搞文學吃飯····卻對文壇失望，再寫不出東西啦····
什麼時候，你和劉先生可以自由自在的生活在中國的土地上？要不要等共產黨下臺的那天？
Annie