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The lesson of Liu Xiaobo

15 July 2017

9:00 AM

15 July 2017

9:00 AM

Eight years into his 11-year prison term, Liu Xiaobo, China’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner, is dying. He is the greatest champion of democracy in a country where there are many others also detained by the Communist Party, which insists those convicted are not dissidents but criminals.

Tried in 2009 for subversion, Liu has just been moved under police guard into a hospital and diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer.

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