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| Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo released from Chinese prison after cancer diagnosis | Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo released from Chinese prison after cancer diagnosis |
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| The Chinese civil rights campaigner and Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole, after he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. | The Chinese civil rights campaigner and Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole, after he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. |
| Liu, 61, is in the late stages of the disease, said Mo Shaoping, his lawyer, who has been in contact with Liu’s family. Liu is being treated at a hospital in the north-eastern city of Shenyang, near where he was being held. | Liu, 61, is in the late stages of the disease, said Mo Shaoping, his lawyer, who has been in contact with Liu’s family. Liu is being treated at a hospital in the north-eastern city of Shenyang, near where he was being held. |
| He was awarded the peace prize in 2010, while he was in the middle of serving an 11-year prison sentence for inciting subversion of state power. Liu Xia, his wife, has been under house arrest since her husband won and has reportedly suffered from depression due to her isolation. She has not been formally charged with a crime despite her nearly seven years in detention. | |
| Liu was arrested and tried after penning a pro-democracy manifesto called Charter 08, where he called for an end to one-party rule and improvements in human rights. Little has been heard from him since, and he was unable to collect his Nobel prize, instead being represented by an empty chair. | Liu was arrested and tried after penning a pro-democracy manifesto called Charter 08, where he called for an end to one-party rule and improvements in human rights. Little has been heard from him since, and he was unable to collect his Nobel prize, instead being represented by an empty chair. |
| The Norwegian Nobel committee awarded him the prize for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”. | The Norwegian Nobel committee awarded him the prize for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”. |
| “Through the severe punishment meted out to him, Liu has become the foremost symbol of this wide-ranging struggle for human rights in China,” the committee said in 2010. | “Through the severe punishment meted out to him, Liu has become the foremost symbol of this wide-ranging struggle for human rights in China,” the committee said in 2010. |
| The prize infuriated the Chinese government and relations with Norway quickly deteriorated. | The prize infuriated the Chinese government and relations with Norway quickly deteriorated. |
| “The authorities should immediately and unconditionally lift all restrictions on his wife Liu Xia and let the two reunite as soon as possible,” said Patrick Poon, a researcher at Amnesty International in Hong Kong. | “The authorities should immediately and unconditionally lift all restrictions on his wife Liu Xia and let the two reunite as soon as possible,” said Patrick Poon, a researcher at Amnesty International in Hong Kong. |