Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) was a firebrand literary critic, poet, and democracy activist. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, just months into an 11-year prison sentence that would ...

The news has sickened many more who, like me, never had the chance to meet him. Liu Xiaobo released from prison: with terminal liver cancer His release to a hospital, apparently on medical parole ...

Even when Liu Xiaobo was out of prison, the couple were rarely left alone for long. "Because he has written so many socially critical articles, a lot of underprivileged people would go to his ...

So stated Liu Xiaobo in court in 2009, and in the eight long prison years between then and now, he refused to recant his commitment to democracy. No wonder China's leaders are as afraid of him in ...

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in ... s ten years in power according to the new report “Home as Prison: The Increasing use of House Arrest in China” by Safeguard ...

Chinese authorities announced last month that he had liver cancer and moved him from prison to a hospital in ... Even RIP is being deleted by censors' Liu Xiaobo memorialised in social art Love ...

Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident writer, died on Thursday aged 61 after losing a battle with liver cancer. He had been in prison since 2009, his “crime” being ...

Liu Xiaobo was a great man. He is not as famous, worldwide, as, say, Nelson Mandela or Václav Havel. Perry Link makes this point to me in a conversation. Mandela emerged from prison to be ...

and he was sentenced to eleven years in prison, with an additional two years’ deprivation of all political rights. In October 2010, Liu Xiaobo received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ...

The Chinese government has tried hard to erase Liu Xiaobo from the memories of Chinese ... But when he died in his hospital bed, released from prison too late for any treatment that might have ...