28, 1955, in Changchun, a city in northeastern China. His final days were spent under virtual lockdown, with only his doctors, brothers and his wife, Liu Xia, permitted to see him.
He received treatment in northeastern China, over the objections of his supporters who submitted a petition requesting that Liu be allowed to travel abroad for treatment.
In Hong Kong, pro-democracy activists gathered outside the Chinese central government offices to mourn the death of the country’s most prominent political prisoner.Ĭhinese authorities released Liu on medical parole in late June after he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. World leaders praised Liu as a freedom fighter and towering symbol of human rights. Liu had terminal liver cancer and had been granted parole in June after his diagnosis but remained under virtual house arrest.Ī prominent champion of democracy, free expression and constitutionalism since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Liu had been jailed four times and - when freed last month - was eight years into an 11-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.” When Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, the committee saluted his “long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.” The Chinese judicial bureau said Liu died Thursday of multiple organ failure. 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.
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