Chinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Dies At 61

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Chinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Dies At 61
Last Updated: July 13, 2017 18:19 GMT

    RFE/RL

Chinese authorities say Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has died while still in custody following a battle with cancer, after Beijing ignored international pleas to let him spend his final days free and abroad.

The death of the prominent 61-year-old democracy advocate on July 13, more than a month after he was transferred from prison to a heavily guarded hospital, was decried by world leaders and international officials and personalities, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel leading the tributes.

Authorities in the northeastern city of Shenyang said that Liu died three days after going into intensive care to be treated for late-stage liver cancer at a local hospital.

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He was their main advocate for human rights from what I can tell.