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A grim vigil
Source: Sup China (7/10/17)
A grim vigil
Dissident Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波, out on medical parole from his 11-year prison sentence to have his terminal liver cancer treated, has been seen by two doctors from the U.S. and Germany:
The foreign doctors contradicted Chinese government statements that Liu was too sick to travel.
The Global Times published an edited video clip (with no context) of the German doctor praising the Chinese doctors who have been treating Liu. Also circulated by an unknown leaker: images and video of Liu’s wife at his bedside surrounded by a medical team, including the foreign doctors.
The German Embassy posted a note of “deep concern…that certain authorities have evidently made audio and video surveillance recordings of the medical visit of Mr. Liu Xiaobo by a German doctor…against the expressed wishes of the German side.”
German Chancellor ­Angela Merkel appealed to Beijing for “a signal of humanity” toward the dissident.
Noted legal scholar and recent Sinica Podcast guest Jerome Cohen writes on the painful choice facing dissidents like Liu: “exile or extermination.”
—Jeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
by denton.2 at osu.edu on July 11, 2017
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