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Remembering Liu Xiaobo, Who Fought For Human Rights In China
And he's a very special person." The president spoke at a press conference with President Macron of France, just hours after Liu Xiaobo had died. Liu, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ...
Los Angeles Times7y
Nobel laureate and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo dies at 61
Reporting from Beijing — Liu Xiaobo, the famed Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize while jailed for his pro-democracy writings, has died in a hospital in northeastern China at the ...
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Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate imprisoned in China, dies at 61
In the days after the Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, on Oct. 8, 2010, his country cut off trade talks with Norway, home of the Nobel committee ...
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After Liu Xiaobo's Death, Concerns Grow For His Widow's Well-Being
A Chinese official made this assertion to allay concerns that the widow of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who died July 13, remains under house arrest — as she has been for most of the ...
Los Angeles Times7y
Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s death sparked an outpouring of grief online. Then came the censors
Reporting from BEIJING — After Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident and 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, died in custody on Thursday evening, his Chinese admirers went online to voice their sympathy and ...
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Attention turns to freedom of Liu Xiaobo’s widow after Chinese dissident’s death
BEIJING (Reuters) – Friends of China’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo, who died of liver cancer in custody, said on Friday they were unable to contact his widow, Liu Xia ...
The New Yorker7y
The Unbroken Liu Xiaobo
In death, Liu Xiaobo’s name has gained a new power even beyond that which it achieved in life. Liu was China’s sole winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and was in prison for pieces of writing ...
CNN7y
Liu Xiaobo: How a dissident’s declining health turned into a propaganda battle
As he lies in a hospital bed fighting for his life, cancer-stricken Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has become the focus of a government propaganda offensive aimed at pushing back international ...
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China Releases Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo From Prison After Cancer Diagnosis
Chinese authorities have granted dissident Liu Xiaobo medical parole, freeing the Nobel Peace Prize winner from prison because he has terminal liver cancer. Liu, 61, is being allowed to seek ...
The Washington Post11y
China has not been able to hide Liu Xiaobo’s ideas
Despite our connectedness, one of the world’s most famous people, China’s most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, has vanished. Charter 08 garnered worldwide attention and thousands of ...
CNN7y
Liu Xiaobo: How a dissident’s declining health turned into a propaganda battle
As he lies in a hospital bed fighting for his life, cancer-stricken Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has become the focus of a government propaganda offensive aimed at pushing back international ...