There was no sign of Liu Xiaobo in the Beijing coffee shop – a confusion over the place or time we had arranged to meet, I assumed. But he wasn’t answering his mobile phone and a call to his ...

Last month, as the entire world watched, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo died in miserable conditions. Despite his wish to die as a free man and the efforts of countless individuals and ...

Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who was China's most prominent human rights and democracy advocate, has died aged 61. The activist had been serving an 11-year prison term for "subversion" and was ...

As China’s government faces mounting international pressure to grant imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo his wish to leave the country for treatment of advanced liver cancer ...

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 ...

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In one of its most egregious examples of political oppression, the PRC has subjected the poet, author, and political scientist Liu Xiaobo to years of harassment. When the Tiananmen protests began ...

The Nobel peace laureate was serving a sentence of 11 years for subversion, but was moved from prison to a hospital last month with terminal liver cancer. Thousands of Fu Bao fans lined the ...

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 ...

A Tiananmen Square protester and writer remembers Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has died of cancer aged 61 in China, while serving an 11 year prison term for disrupting social order through his work.

She follows Germany’s Carl von Ossietzky, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, China’s Liu Xiaobo and Belarus’s Ales Beliatski. “Narges Mohammadi’s struggle is also comparable to that of Albert ...

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in modern Chinese history. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died in custody in a Shenyang hospital in 2017 while being treated for liver cancer.