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Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, the unwitting martyr

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Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo received an 11-year sentence for "inciting subversion of state power."
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  • Liu Xiaobo died of liver cancer on July 13 in Shenyang, China
  • He'll be remembered for his fight for human rights and freedom of speech
Beijing (CNN)Despite being one of China's most famous political dissidents, Liu Xiaobo rarely struck those who knew him as a firebrand.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate's mild manners and gentle voice belied his conviction for his cause -- improving human rights in China.

"I feel that, in a dictatorship, if you want to be a person with dignity, if you want to be an honest person, you must fight for human rights and fight for freedom of speech," the writer and activist said in a 2007 interview. "Going to prison is part of that, and I have nothing to complain about."

Liu died of liver cancer on July 13 at a hospital in Shenyang in northeastern China. He was 61.

He was granted medical parole in June after receiving his diagnosis in prison, but the Beijing government would not let him seek treatment abroad despite Liu's wishes and international pressure.

Officials eventually agreed to invite Western doctors to join his medical team.
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feared the dissident was close to death -- made a martyr by the Communist authorities.
"Whether it was gross negligence or political murder, they have committed an unprecedented crime as no other government of the world has ever seen a Nobel Peace Prize laureate die in its custody," said Hu Jia, a leading Chinese human rights activist, when Liu first left jail.

Hu has known Liu's wife, Liu Xia, for years and served prison terms for his own advocacy.
Many of his friends and supporters said at the time of his release that they feared the dissident was close to death -- made a martyr by the Communist authorities.
Remembering Liu Xiaobo

Liu was first jailed for his role in the 1989 pro-democracy movement after the bloody crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- and later for petitioning for political reform and co-writing a paper on policy toward Taiwan that was at odds with the government stance.
His most recent conviction, in December 2009, stemmed from his co-authorship of Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political reform and human rights in China. He received a surprisingly harsh 11-year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power."
In October 2010, while serving his sentence at Jinzhou Prison, near Shenyang, Liu was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."

Liu's wife tweeted at the time that, upon hearing the news from her during a prison visit, her husband started to cry and said: "This is for the martyrs of Tiananmen Square."
"His continued effort throughout these 20 years has not changed society, but he's influenced a lot of people," Liu Xia, who married Liu Xiaobo in 1996 while he was serving an earlier prison sentence, told CNN in 2009.
 
He was denied medical facilities even after so many countries requested China to send him abroad for treatment.
 
He was denied medical facilities even after so many countries requested China to send him abroad for treatment.
Heck, who knows if he was murdered. Subjecting to radiation.

CCP has one of the worst track record for human rights. They have mobile execution units, which are vans that are used to execute prisoners. You know the most fuc*ed up part is they harvest organs in these units until 2006.

If the execution is using firing squad, the family of the executed prisoner has to pay for the bullets that's used to kill their own family member.
Chinese here have all tall claims of how economically and technologically advanced their country is. But basically, you should keep heads low and obey the powerful. That was China since centuries and it still is.
 
Heck, who knows if he was murdered. Subjecting to radiation.

CCP has one of the worst track record for human rights. They have mobile execution units, which are vans that are used to execute prisoners. You know the most fuc*ed up part is they harvest organs in these units until 2006.

If the execution is using firing squad, the family of the executed prisoner has to pay for the bullets that's used to kill their own family member.
Chinese here have all tall claims of how economically and technologically advanced their country is. But basically, you should keep heads low and obey the powerful. That was China since centuries and it still is.

It is impossible to know what happened. China refused to send him abroad because China feared he would open his mouth on Chinese human right violations. Now dying in Chinese custody he became a hero. He would inspire even more in his death to people of the world who stand for democracy and human rights.

China made him a martyr.
 
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China: Release Liu Xiaobo and allow him to travel overseas to get medical treatment
Stop lying. And go read article. He wasn't allowed to travel overseas. Despite repeated request, he was released on his terminal phase of cancer. So, you made sure he won't last for long then released him to prove you care for human rights. That's too shady.
He was allowed to have foreign doctors, but no travel abroad.

well, that's indian for you.. they lie and fart from their mouth :laugh:
:lol:Both can't read a simple article.
 
July 13, 2017 / 10:15 PM / 33 minutes ago
'No enemies': the life-long advocacy of China's Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident
Benjamin Kang Lim

BEIJING (Reuters) - During a hunger strike days before the Chinese army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement on June 4, 1989, the man who would become China's best known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, declared: "We have no enemies."

When being tried in 2009 on charges of inciting subversion of state power for helping write Charter 08 - a pro-democracy manifesto calling for an end to one-party rule - Liu reaffirmed: "I have no enemies and no hatred."

He was sentenced to 11 years in prison that same year, drawing protests from the United States, many European governments and rights groups, which condemned the stiff sentence and called for his early release.

Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.

Liu, 61, died on Thursday of multiple organ failure, the government of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang said. He was being treated in a hospital there, having been admitted in June after being diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer.

His wife, Liu Xia, had told Reuters previously that her husband wanted to dedicate the Nobel prize to those who died in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

"He said this prize should go to all the victims of June 4," Liu Xia said, after she was allowed to visit him in jail following the announcement of the prize.

"He felt sad, quite upset. He cried. He felt it was hard to deal with."

Liu Xia had been living under house arrest since her husband won the Nobel prize, but had been allowed to visit him in prison about once a month. She suffers from depression.

She was allowed to be with him in the hospital where he spent his last days.

Charter 08
Liu had been a thorn in Beijing's side since 1989, when he helped negotiate a deal to allow protesters to leave Tiananmen Square before troops and tanks rolled in.

"Using the law to promote rights can only have a limited impact when the judiciary is not independent," Liu told Reuters in 2006, when he was under house arrest, in comments typical of those that have angered the government.

Charter 08 alarmed the Communist Party more for the 350 signatures - dignitaries from all walks of life – he collected than its content, political analysts said.

The manifesto was modeled on the Charter 77 petition that became a rallying call for the human rights movement in communist Czechoslovakia in 1977.

Liu had ceaselessly campaigned for the rights of the Tiananmen Mothers of victims of the crackdown.

He was much better known abroad than at home due to a government ban on internet and state media discussion of the Tiananmen protests, and of him, aside from the odd editorial condemning him.

Liu was considered a moderate by fellow dissidents and international rights groups. But they say the Communist Party is insecure and paranoid, fearing anyone or anything that it perceives as a threat to stability.

In 2003, Liu wrote an essay, calling for the embalmed corpse of Chairman Mao Zedong to be removed from a mausoleum on Tiananmen Square. Mao is still a demigod to many in China.

Over the years, Liu won numerous human rights and free speech awards from organizations including Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch and Hong Kong's Human Rights Press Awards.

His books have been published in Germany, Japan, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Hero to Some, Traitor to Others
A hero to many in the West, Liu was branded a traitor by Chinese nationalists.

He had come under fire from nationalists for his comments in a 2006 interview with Hong Kong's now-defunct Open magazine in which he said China would "need 300 years of colonization for it to become like what Hong Kong is today".

The government considered him a criminal.

"For Liu Xiaobo, whatever the United States says or does is right, and whatever the Communist Party says or does is wrong," a source with ties to the leadership said.

"It's too absolute," said the source, who declined to be identified.

Liu's critics were suspicious of the motives of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, noting that Liu praised the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

He had also been taken to task domestically because non-governmental organizations he headed received funding from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy.

The third of five boys, Liu was born in Changchun, capital of the northeastern province of Jilin, on Dec. 28, 1955.

His father, Liu Ling, taught Chinese literature at Northeast Normal University. His mother worked at a kindergarten affiliated with the university.

In 1970, at age 15, Liu was with his parents when they were sent to a labor camp in the region of Inner Mongolia at the height of the Cultural Revolution.

Liu worked briefly as a plasterer at a state-owned construction company in Changchun in 1976. After the Cultural Revolution, China resumed national university entrance examinations which Liu passed.

He earned his bachelor's degree in Chinese literature from Jilin University and obtained his master's and doctorate degrees from Beijing Normal University.

(Corrects birth date of Liu Xiaobo to Dec. 28, 1955, not Dec. 29 in 28th paragraph)



'No enemies': the life-long advocacy of China's Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident
 
Hospital tried best in treatment of Liu Xiaobo, says doctor
(Xinhua) 08:26, July 14, 2017

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The hospital where Liu Xiaobo received medical treatment has done its best to save his life, his main doctor Liu Yunpeng said here.

"Since the day Liu Xiaobo was admitted, the hospital has made every effort in his treatment," said Doctor Liu, of the First Hospital of China Medical University, at a press conference late Thursday night.

Well-known experts from China as well as Germany and the United States were also invited for joint consultations, said Liu, director of the medical oncology department of the hospital based in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province in northeast China.

During the treatment, doctors with the hospital held 25 consultations, had five joint diagnoses with Chinese experts from outside, and briefed Liu Xiaobo's family on his illness for 23 times, Doctor Liu said.

Professor Markus M. Buachler of the German University of Heidelberg, and professor Joseph M. Herman, of the US MD Anderson Cancer Center, were also invited to the hospital for joint consultations.

Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in jail in December 2009 for inciting subversion of state power. He was released on medical parole upon diagnosis of liver cancer.

He died of multiple organ failure due to liver cancer Thursday. He was 61.

In reply to questions of why the patient was not transferred overseas for treatment, Doctor Liu said the patient was in a critical condition that did not allow him being moved to elsewhere.

"The situation was very dangerous, he might be in need of receiving surgery at any time," the doctor said.

"US and German experts spoke highly of the hospital's work, believing the patient had received quality treatment. They held that hospitals in their own countries could not have done a better job," Doctor Liu said.

He also said Liu Xiaobo's type of liver cancer was very hard to be diagnosed at the early stage, and that it developed very quickly at the late stage.

During his last hours, Liu was accompanied by his wife and several relatives. They were very grateful for the hard work of all the doctors and nurses, according to the hospital.
 
sad that a mild manner man died for his services to china's low rank common people....
 
Why do you Indian like to fabricate lie? Integrity issue?

China: Release Liu Xiaobo and allow him to travel overseas to get medical treatment


US, German doctors say Liu Xiaobo can leave China for cancer care
http://www.dw.com/en/us-german-doctors-say-liu-xiaobo-can-leave-china-for-cancer-care/a-39615288
Do you read what you post? The first link is a request to Chinese authorities to allow him to travel overseas. The second link says, China has rejected pleas from Liu's family to travel overseas.

well, that's indian for you.. they lie and fart from their mouth :laugh:

First, learn to read. Mere 5G bandwidth will not make you educated.
 
Quite sad. How much difference could have one dissident possibly made if he was allowed to travel for medical treatment?

Do you read what you post? The first link is a request to Chinese authorities to allow him to travel overseas. The second link says, China has rejected pleas from Liu's family to travel overseas.



First, learn to read. Mere 5G bandwidth will not make you educated.
LOL - that's Chinese members here for you. If it ain't in the Little Red Book - they don't bother reading it.
 
Do you read what you post? The first link is a request to Chinese authorities to allow him to travel overseas. The second link says, China has rejected pleas from Liu's family to travel overseas.



First, learn to read. Mere 5G bandwidth will not make you educated.


Your mate ito said "he was denied medical facilities..." My links show Liu was given full medical treatment, foreign doctors confirmed it.

The plea to take him overseas for treatment is purely political, he was simply too sick to travel. It was the proven right, Liu didn't make it.
 

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