Remembering Liu Xiaobo
The Nobel Prize winner, one of China’s most-prominent dissidents, was 61.
by Krishnadev Calamur
Jul 13, 2017
2 minutes
Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Prize-winning Chinese dissident who defied the Communist Party by calling for the end of one-party rule, has died. He was 61.
The cause, Chinese officials said, was terminal liver cancer. Liu, who had been serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversive activities, was transferred to a hospital in northeastern China last month.
Liu, a university professor who protected the Chart 08 petition a year earlier calling for China’s transformation into a democracy. Here’s an excerpt:
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