Liu Xiaobo no more: Activists mourn passing of Nobel laureate
News of Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s death sparked an immediate outpouring of grief and rage.
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In what became one of his most famous essays, Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo wrote, “I have no enemies,” in an ode to hope and a repudiation of hatred and fear. AP
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Liu, China’s most prominent political prisoner, died at a hospital in the country’s northeast following a battle with liver cancer, officials said on Thursday. He was 61. Reuters
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Liu was only the second Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in prison, a fact pointed to by human rights groups as an indication of the Chinese Communist Party’s increasingly hard line against its critics. AP
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Liu’s supporters and foreign governments had urged China to allow him to receive treatment abroad, but Chinese authorities insisted he was receiving the best care possible for a disease that had spread throughout his body. AP
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Liu was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 while serving his fourth and final prison sentence, for inciting subversion by advocating sweeping political reforms and greater human rights in China. AP
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Liu’s face was emblazoned on countless signs during Hong Kong’s annual pro-democracy rally and march on Saturday, underscoring how he had become a unifying figure among the Opposition in Hong Kong that has been criticised relentlessly by the territory’s leaders. AP
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News of Liu’s death sparked an immediate outpouring of grief and rage. His peaceful activism and biting criticism of one-party rule meant he had spent almost a quarter of his life behind bars. AP
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