{"id":5519,"date":"2017-07-15T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T19:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2017-07-15T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T19:55:37","slug":"liu-xiaobo-imprisoned-chinese-nobel-laureate-dies-cancer-battle-alexander-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/15\/liu-xiaobo-imprisoned-chinese-nobel-laureate-dies-cancer-battle-alexander-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"“Liu Xiaobo, Imprisoned Chinese Nobel Laureate, Dies After Cancer Battle” by\u00a0Alexander Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 13, 2017 (nbcnews.com)<\/p>\n

China’s most prominent political prisoner, the Nobel laureate and pro-democracy icon Liu Xiaobo, has died aged 61, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n

He was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” but was moved to a hospital in May because he was suffering advanced-stage liver cancer.<\/p>\n

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Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo smiles in this undated photo released by his family.<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>Reuters file<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was there that officials said in a brief statement that Liu had suffered multiple organ failure and efforts to save him had failed, according to Reuters and The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

China has been heavily criticized over Liu’s detention and was accused of not releasing him so he could get the urgent medical care that he needed.<\/p>\n

Chinese officials insisted he was getting the best care possible for a disease that had spread through his body.<\/p>\n

“Liu Xiaobo is an inspiring figure whose only crime was to speak truth to power,” Salil Shetty, secretary general at Amnesty International,\u00a0said in a statement last week<\/a>. “He should never have spent a single day in jail, an injustice made even more tragic by the fact that his cancer was not diagnosed until it reached terminal phase.”<\/p>\n

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Today we mourn human rights champion\u00a0#<\/span>LiuXiaobo<\/span><\/a>. With courage and dignity, he inspired millions in China and globally.<\/p>\n