Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate imprisoned for his opposition to authoritarian rule in China, has died from cancer at age 61. The Chinese government granted Liu medical ...

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Liu Xiaobo and the principles he stood for in China, and wonders how Americans and American institutions will respond to his death.

Liu Xiaobo died on Thursday after suffering multiple organ failure. He was recently moved from jail to a hospital in the city of Shenyang to be treated for late-stage liver cancer.

Liu Xia, Detained Widow of Nobel Peace Laureate, Leaves China Ms. Liu’s release from house arrest came almost a year after her husband, the democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo, died while in prison.

Liu Xiaobo, the famed Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize while jailed for his pro-democracy writings, has died in a hospital in northeastern China at the age of 61.

Jailed activist Liu Xiaobo was a participant in the 1989 pro-democracy movement. Each year, he writes an elegy for the martyrs of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Evan Osnos writes about the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who died of late-stage liver cancer on Thursday while serving an eleven-year prison sentence.

As he lies in a hospital bed fighting for his life, cancer-stricken Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has become the focus of a government propaganda offensive aimed at pushing back international ...

Chinese authorities have granted dissident Liu Xiaobo medical parole, freeing the Nobel Peace Prize winner from prison because he has terminal liver cancer. Liu, 61, is being allowed to seek ...

After Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident and 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, died in custody on Thursday evening, his Chinese admirers went online to voice their sympathy and grief — and countless ...