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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2017/06/27/liu-xiaobo-released-on-his-last-legs/" target="_blank">Liu Xiaobo released on his last legs</a></h3>
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<p>Source: Sup China (6/26/17)<br />
<a href="http://supchina.com/2017/06/26/dissident-released-terminal-cancer-deadly-landslide-chinas-latest-top-news/">Liu Xiaobo released on his last legs</a><br />
By Jeremy Goldkorn</p>
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<p>One of the most recognizable figures of the quashed pro-democracy movement within China, Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波, has been released from prison on <strong>medical parole due to late-stage liver cancer</strong>, the <em>New York Times </em><a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=9d6798f799&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reports</a> (paywall). The <em>Times </em>cites one of Liu’s lawyers as saying that he was initially hospitalized a few weeks ago in the northeastern city of Shenyang, though the disease appears to be “very serious, very serious,” and “at this late stage, the treatment seems much more difficult.”</p>
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<li>The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awarded its <strong>Nobel Peace Prize</strong> to the imprisoned dissident Liu in 2010, released a <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=f328c75afb&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement</a> expressing “a mixture of relief and deep worry” at news of his release, and reiterated that Liu has a “standing invitation” to visit Oslo and claim his award. Liu was sentenced to an 11-year prison sentence on December 25, 2009, for “inciting subversion of state power.” Liu has been an irritant to the Party-state since the 1980s, and detained several times. The major offense that earned him the 11-year sentence was his role as a key author of the <strong>Charter 08 document that advocated democratic reforms in China</strong>. You can read a translation of that document in full <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=445a0e9a5f&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</li>
<li>News of Liu’s release, as with all <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=e59836d9e7&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mentions</a> of his name on social media, was <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=ca96a93031&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">thoroughly censored</a> in China. Joanna Chiu, a reporter for <em>Agence France-Presse</em>, <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=73ec64cbf7&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">noted</a> that “asked about Liu Xiaobo’s parole, a <strong>foreign ministry spokesman told reporters: ‘I am not aware of the situation you’re talking about.’”</strong></li>
<li>The only mention of the medical parole in state media, it appears, was an extremely short article in the <em>Global Times </em>tabloid <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=5be42cb3c5&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">titled</a> “Renowned cancer experts treat Liu Xiaobo on medical parole.” There is also a brief announcement <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=535d437b75&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">on the website of the Liaoning Province Prison Management Office</a> (in Chinese).</li>
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<p>For more on this story as it develops, follow Joanna Chiu’s Twitter <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=39c15c6cfd&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">feed</a>.</p>
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