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| Liu Xiaobo dead: Jailed Chinese opposition activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner dies aged 61 | |
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| The Chinese activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has died at the age of 61, the government has said. | The Chinese activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has died at the age of 61, the government has said. |
| The country's most famous political prisoner was being treated for terminal liver cancer in a heavily-guarded hospital in north-eastern China. Mr Liu had been transferred from prison last month where he was serving an 11-year term for "subversion". | |
| World leaders such as German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-Wen called upon China to permit the human rights activist to travel abroad to receive medical care which supporters argue could have extended his life. At the time, critics argued China's reluctance to let him travel overseas was prompted by fears he would voice his frustrations with the one-party state from his deathbed. | |
| Mr Liu, who took part in the 1989 pro-democracy Tiannanmen Square demonstrations, was arrested in 2008 after writing a pro-democracy manifesto titled Charter 08 in which he demanded an end to one-party rule and called for improvements in human rights. It was signed by thousands of people in China. | |
| After a year in detention and a two-hour trial, the famed dissident was sentenced in December 2009 to 11 years imprisonment for "inciting subversion of state power". | |
| Colleagues and democracy activists say he was held incommunicado since - in an attempt to do away with any memory of him. | |
| Mr Liu was awarded the Nobel Prize back in 2010 while imprisoned but his family was barred from travelling to Norway to accept the award. Instead the award was bestowed to an empty chair, which later became a symbol of China's repression. | |
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