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China must release critically ill Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo

The Chinese authorities are demonstrating new-depths of cruelty by preventing Liu Xiaobo from leaving the country to receive urgent medical treatment for his late-stage liver cancer, Amnesty International said.

July 5, 2017
Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia taken by the sea on 24 May 2005 Liu Xiaobo is a former participant in the 1989 pro-democracy student movement, he was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment on 25 December 2009, for initiating and signing Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political accountability and human rights protection. Articles he wrote about 4 June 1989 were cited in his verdict as evidence of "inciting subversion".