As Liu Xiaobo said in the Nobel speech he was not permitted to deliver in person, "Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth." ...

Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate imprisoned for his opposition to authoritarian rule in China, has died from cancer at age 61. The Chinese government granted Liu medical ...

International criticism of the Chinese government is mounting following the death of Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Thursday.

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, and ...

Ms. Liu’s release from house arrest came almost a year after her husband, the democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo, died while in prison. By Jane Perlez Hong Kong Marks Tiananmen Crackdown, as China ...

On June 26, Liu Xiaobo’s lawyers informed the media that Liu had been “released on bail for medical treatment” and transferred from Jinzhou Prison to China Medical University No. 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, and ...

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 ...

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 age of 61.