Current Events > Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident and Nobel laureate died on 7/13/17

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dodokiki 07/14/17 9:50:37 PM #1:	http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-40597514 Liu Xiaobo played a significant role in the Tiananmen Square student protests of June 1989, which ended in bloodshed when they were quashed by government troops. [...] The dissident won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China", but he was not permitted to travel to Norway to accept it. [...] [A] 11-year jail term was handed down in 2009 after he compiled, with other intellectuals, the Charter 08 manifesto. It called for an end to one-party rule and the introduction of multi-party democracy. This guy died of cancer. Wasn't moved to a hospital from jail until it was terminal. Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Lecture I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/xiaobo-lecture.html --- Gamefaqs Confessions Form: https://goo.gl/iyqTeU PM me for list of all and uncensored CE confessions. <cite>dodokiki posted [p:882932872] in Liu Xiaobo... [t:75566381]...</cite> <quote><cite>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-40597514</cite> <quote>Liu Xiaobo played a significant role in the Tiananmen Square student protests of June 1989, which ended in bloodshed when they were quashed by government troops. [...] The dissident won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China", but he was not permitted to travel to Norway to accept it. [...] [A] 11-year jail term was handed down in 2009 after he compiled, with other intellectuals, the Charter 08 manifesto. It called for an end to one-party rule and the introduction of multi-party democracy.</quote> This guy died of cancer. Wasn't moved to a hospital from jail until it was terminal. Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Lecture I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/xiaobo-lecture.html</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ElatedVenusaur 07/14/17 10:25:39 PM #2:	Bad as things may seem in the States, we're still better off than the Chinese. I hope Liu Xiaobo is free in death, as he could not be in life. <cite>ElatedVenusaur posted [p:882934514] in Liu Xiaobo... [t:75566381]...</cite> <quote>Bad as things may seem in the States, we're still better off than the Chinese. I hope Liu Xiaobo is free in death, as he could not be in life.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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