China's Jailed Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo Dies From Cancer
- The writer was China’s most prominent political prisoner
- Activist called for direct elections, freedom to assemble
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Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winner jailed for advocating an end to one-party rule, died from complications related to cancer after an international push failed to secure his treatment overseas.
The 61-year-old author and former university lecturer was treated at the No. 1 Hospital of Chinese Medical University in the northeastern city of Shenyang, where authorities transferred him last month after his condition worsened. He’s the first Nobel laureate to die under guard since pacifist and Nazism critic Carl von Ossietzky’s death in Germany in 1938.