On 8 December 2008, two days before the 60th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Liu Xiaobo was detained by police, hours before the online release of the Charter.
在联合国大会通过世界人权宣言60周年庆祝活动的两天前（2008年12月8日），刘晓波被警方拘留，而数小时前零八宪章在网上刚刚发布。