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Jul 13, 2017 · 208. Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died of cancer under guard in a hospital, was mourned in Hong Kong on Thursday. Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times. By Chris Buckley...
Jul 13, 2017 · SHENYANG, China (AP) — Imprisoned for all the seven years since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo never renounced the pursuit of human rights in China, insisting on living a life of “honesty, responsibility and dignity.”. China’s most prominent political prisoner died Thursday of liver cancer at 61.
Jul 13, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo, a prominent independent intellectual in China, is a long-time advocate of political reform and human rights in China and an outspoken critic of the Chinese communist regime; Liu has been detained, put under house arrest and imprisoned many times for his writing and activism.
Jul 13, 2017 · But in death as in life, Liu Xiaobo has refused to be erased. The video footage of the dying man which China released outside the country was clearly intended to prove to the world that...
Jul 14, 2017 · PBS NewsHour. Nobel laureate and renowned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo died Thursday in China after complications with liver cancer. Since 2009, Liu had served time behind bars after...
Jul 13, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo: A giant of human rights who leaves a lasting legacy for China and the world. Today we grieve the loss of a giant of human rights. Liu Xiaobo was a man of fierce intellect, principle, wit and above all humanity. Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Jul 13, 2017 · Liu Xiaobo was the "foremost symbol" of China's human rights struggle, the Nobel committee said. When the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement began in 1989, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia...
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