As Liu Xiaobo said in the Nobel speech he was not permitted to deliver in person, "Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth." ...

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 ...

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.

Ms. Liu’s release from house arrest came almost a year after her husband, the democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo, died while in prison. By Jane Perlez Hong Kong Marks Tiananmen Crackdown, as China ...

In death, Liu Xiaobo’s name has gained a new power even beyond that which it achieved in life. Liu was China’s sole winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and was in prison for pieces of writing ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...