As president of the association, Mr. Pinsker advised companies on attaining nonprofit status, writing charters and bylaws and hiring publicists.
His 11-year jail sentence on spurious subversion charges is punishment for helping write Charter 08, which called for democratic reforms.
His current 11-year jail sentence on spurious subversion charges is punishment for helping write Charter 08, an Internet manifesto calling for democratic reforms and an end to the Communist Party's monopoly on power.
His most recent sentence was for posting essays on the Internet that his judges said showed "deep subjective malice" towards the "people's democratic dictatorship," and for helping to write Charter 08, a call for political freedom modeled on Czechoslovakia's Charter 77.
On Thursday in Beijing, Zhang Zuhua, a former official who helped write Charter 08, was forced into a vehicle by police officers, according to rights advocates, and dozens of other people were either confined to their homes or escorted out of the capital.
Mr. Liu, one of Mr. Yu's closest friends, wrote Charter 08, a manifesto calling for gradual political reforms, and was sentenced in 2009 to 11 years in prison, a move that contributed to Mr. Liu's being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the next year.
"Compared to traditional public school teachers," they write, "charter school teachers are more likely to voluntarily leave the profession or move to a new school because they are dissatisfied with the school and its working conditions".
Through these writs, attempts were made to enforce the rule that the only correct way to receive a privilege or grant of land was through a written charter, which might have deprived most of the magnates of England of their lands and rights.
A written charter will be agreed and used by the TOC.
"In 1987," Liptak wrote, on the Constitution's bicentennial, Time magazine calculated that "of the 170 countries that exist today, more than 160 have written charters modeled directly or indirectly on the U.S. version".
