Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo released from prison, suffering from liver cancer
Source: The Washington Post
By Emily Rauhala and Simon Denyer June 26 at 6:03 AM
BEIJING— China’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner and most famous dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was released Monday from prison on medical grounds to treat his advanced liver cancer, his lawyer told The Washington Post.
Liu, 61, who participated in the 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square demonstrations, became the first citizen of the People’s Republic of China to win the Nobel Prize in 2010 for advocating greater freedoms in his country — and is the only laureate currently serving a prison sentence.
He was arrrested in 2008 and subsequently sentenced to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power” and has been held incommunicado since — in hopes of erasing any memory of him say colleagues and rights activists.
“Liu was diagnosed with liver cancer on May 23, and the parole application was approved last week,” said his Lawyer Mo Shaoping. “He is now in a hospital in Shenyang. Some family members have already visited him.”
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