Tag: Liu Xiaobo
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✴︎ blogA World Without Liu Xiaobo
Liu Xiaobo died of cancer last week. A veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and one of the authors of the Charter 08 manifesto advocating for democratic reform, Liu was China’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner. In spite of Liu’s advocacy for non-violent change, Chinese authorities sentenced Liu in 2009 to eleven years’ imprisonment…