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Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)

Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner. On 26 June 2017, he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with liver cancer; he died a few weeks later on 13 July 2017.

28 December 1955

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