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    Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波; pinyin: Liú Xiǎobō; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel...
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    photographer. Liu Xia was under effective house arrest in China as her husband, Liu Xiaobo, had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. She remained under house...
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    Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017) "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human...
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  • 08, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment for "inciting subversion of state power" because of his involvement. A year later, Liu was...
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    1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) and the government of the...
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  • essay written by Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, intended to be read at his trial in December 2009. Liu was charged with...
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    meeting, gathering prominent student leaders and intellectuals, including Liu Xiaobo, Chen Ziming, and Wang Juntao. Yan said that the government was prepared...
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  • electoral reforms and the arrest of a high-profile Chinese activist, Liu Xiaobo. The democracy movements of 2010 can be seen as a precursor to the events...
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    Chinese Embassy after the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. This would make the embassy's new address "1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza". However, both of them got stuck in...
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  • Liu Xiaobo (simplified Chinese: 刘哮波; traditional Chinese: 劉哮波; pinyin: Liú Xiàobō; born 16 January 1984 in Beijing) is a Chinese taekwondo athlete. He...
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  • then she has served another year in RTL after protesting in support of Liu Xiaobo. She was briefly released, in February 2011, but under house arrest. She...
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    Boboacă, fashion designer Vivienne Tam, Nobel Prize laureate and writer Liu Xiaobo, poet and writer Xu Pei, manga artist Kenshi Hirokane, filmmaker Jia Zhangke...
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  • apply for a ban, "the level of engagement with the song increased". When Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle...
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  • Vaclav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sari Nusseibeh, Corazon Aquino and Liu Xiaobo (Xiaobo would later win.) On 7 October 2016 Nobel Peace Prize went to the...
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    about Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, Xu called Liu "a criminal who violated Chinese law", and that "Liu Xiaobo's problem is China's internal matter...
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    Literature on the Line. She’s also the senior editor of The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate. She is a Vice President of PEN International...
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    arrest at the time of their awards: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Ales Bialiatski, and Narges Mohammadi. As of 2023[update], the Peace...
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    Soon Ho, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017), 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, ashes scattered into the...
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  • in Changping, Beijing, with other dissenters including Liu Xiaobo and Liu Gang. According to Liu Gang's memoir, Chen pretended to be mentally ill and declared...
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  • dissidents. In 2009, prominent dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison for "incident subversion of state...
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    allegedly tortured in 2010 for his friendship with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and a critical biography of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao titled China's Best...
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  • written about their experiences during the movement include Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, Jiang Rong, Ma Bo and Zhang Chengzhi, all of whom went to Inner Mongolia...
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  • Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (b. 1927) 2017 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (b. 1955) 2020 – Grant...
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    Solberg said: "It is with deep grief that I received the news of Liu Xiaobo's passing. Liu Xiaobo was for decades a central voice for human rights and China's...
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  • persecuting Tibetans, Uyghurs, Falun Gong, artists, and journalists (including Liu Xiaobo), summed up as "for security reasons", as a thought-terminating cliché...
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    Winston Churchill did in the 1930s), their liberty, even their lives (as Liu Xiaobo did). Noam Chomsky is dismissive of "speaking truth to power". He asserts:...
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  • advocate for the release of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, both detained in China. In September 2012, HRF founder Thor...
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    the subsequent military massacre. Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo was given a show trial in 2009. Chinese writer and dissident Ma Jian argued...
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    political prisoner Liu Xiaobo. In 2010 Halvorssen was special guest of Liu Xiaobo at the Nobel Prize ceremony awarding the prize to Liu Xiaobo in absentia....
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  • concern. Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist, was arrested and sentenced to jail for 11 years in 2010. Liu Xiaobo, together...
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