Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who
was China’s most prominent human rights and democracy advocate, has died at the
age of 61, BCC reports.
The activist was being treated
for terminal liver cancer in a hospital in north-eastern China.
He had been transferred from
prison last month, where he was serving an 11-year term for “subversion.”
The university professor turned
tireless rights campaigner was branded a criminal by authorities, and was
repeatedly jailed throughout his life.
He was also subject to severe
restrictions when not in prison, while his wife, Liu Xia, was placed under
house arrest.
In the weeks leading up to his
death, Mr Liu’s case became mired in international controversy.
Several Western countries urged
China to allow Mr Liu to leave the country to seek palliative care elsewhere. A
German and an American doctor who recently visited and examined him in a
hospital in Shenyang both said he would be able to travel abroad.
But Chinese medical experts
insisted that he was too ill to travel.
In a brief statement on its
website, the Shenyang legal bureau said that Mr Liu had suffered multiple organ
failure, and that efforts to save the activist had failed.
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