Nobel Winner Liu Xiaobo’s Spirit Lives On

Two years since Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo died from complications of liver cancer while guarded by state security on July 13, 2017, the Chinese government has neither investigated nor taken responsibility for the circumstances of his death. Instead, it has intensified repression of the human rights activists who carry on his legacy – a grim reality marked just this week by the death of Ji Sizun after another baseless imprisonment. Expand Liu Xiaobo.  © Independent Chinese PEN Center A few recent examples: in April, a Sichuan court handed down a three-and-a-half-year prison…

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