Liu Xiaobo, China’s most famous dissident and only winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been granted medical parole to be treated for final-stage liver cancer, according to his lawyer.
Mr Liu, 61, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in late 2009 for “subversion of state power”, has been released from jail to be treated in a non-prison hospital, Mo Shaoping told the Financial Times on Monday.
He was arrested after writing “Charter 08”, a 2008 manifesto calling for constitutional reform and multi-party democracy that was signed by hundreds of intellectuals in China. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, sparking a diplomatic rupture between China and Norway that was only repaired this year.
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