Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies passes away
13th July, 2017Category:
China's Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, 61, died on 13th July 2017 while still in custody following a battle with cancer, authorities said, after officials ignored international pleas to let him spend his final days free and abroad. Liu had been transferred to the hospital after being diagnosed with advanced liver cancer in prison in May but remained under police custody.
Liu was imprisoned for the first time in connection with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 while serving his fourth and final prison sentence in a small city in China's northeast, for inciting subversion by advocating sweeping political reforms and greater human rights in China.
Liu was only the second Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in prison, a fact pointed to by human rights groups as an indication of the Chinese Communist Party's increasingly hard line against its critics. The first, Carl von Ossietzky, died from tuberculosis in Germany in 1938 while serving a sentence for opposing Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
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