Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dies In Custody...

Liu Xiaobo, Chinese political dissident, writer, human rights activist and Nobel prize winner for peace in 2010, died in custody on Thursday evening, due to liver cancer.

Xiaobo was one of the prominent participants in the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests of 1989, and was jailed for 11 years in 2009, for calling for political reforms and for helping draft Charter 08, a document calling for multiparty democracy and freedom of speech.


A lecturer at Beijing Normal University, Liu Xiaobo was a prominent figure during the student-led protests that swept Beijing in 1989. During the military crackdown of the protests that killed thousands of protesters, Liu is credited with negotiating a peaceful retreat from the square saving many lives.


His death in custody makes him the second Nobel Peace laureate to die while imprisoned, the first being German pacifist and Nazi foe Carl von Ossietzky in 1938.

Carl von Ossietzky was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1935 for his works in exposing the clandestine German rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.

Ossietzky had also criticized the growth of antisemitism in Germany, and had criticized the spurt of pseudo-intellectual literature expressing antisemitism then through his writings.

 

Too bad he's hardly known in China Something to consider for the people that think western media sucks...