LATEST: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo dies, Chinese government says
dpa Thursday, July 13, 2017, 9:39 pm TWN
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BEIJING -- Jailed activist and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has died at 61 due to multiple organ failure, the Chinese justice bureau and the hospital where he was being treated for terminal liver cancer said Thursday.
Liu was an internationally prominent writer and activist who called for political reform in China and an end to the country's one-party rule. In 2009, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for subverting state power.
One year later, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work campaigning for human rights in China.