Liu Xiaobo
Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955-2017) · China · Writers · Died at 61
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Something wrong?A literary critic turned dissident, Liu Xiaobo spent more than a decade in Chinese prisons for demanding political reform - and became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize while living in China, accepting it from a cell.
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Liu rose through 1980s literary circles as a critic and philosopher before returning from abroad to join the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. That choice began a cycle: imprisoned 1989-1991, then 1995-1996, then 1996-1999, each time on charges tied to subversion. He led the Independent Chinese PEN Center from 2003 to 2007 and edited Democratic China magazine. In December 2008 he was detained for co-authoring Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political reform, and the following June formally arrested. Tried and sentenced to eleven years on Christmas Day 2009, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize while behind bars - the third laureate ever honored in prison. Diagnosed with liver cancer in 2017, he was released on medical parole in late June and died three weeks later.
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