Liu Xiaobo
|w = Liu2 Hsiao3-po1 |order = st }}Liu Xiaobo (; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner. On 26 June 2017, he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with liver cancer; he died a few weeks later on 13 July 2017.
Liu rose to fame in 1980s Chinese literary circles with his exemplary literary critiques. He eventually became a visiting scholar at several international universities. He returned to China to support the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and was imprisoned for the first time from 1989 to 1991, again from 1995 to 1996 and yet again from 1996 to 1999 for his involvement on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power. He served as the President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, from 2003 to 2007. He was also the president of ''Minzhu Zhongguo'' (''Democratic China'') magazine starting in the mid-1990s. On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained due to his participation with the ''Charter 08'' manifesto. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009 on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power". He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009 and sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009.
During his fourth prison term, Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."
Liu was the first Chinese citizen to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China, as well being the first ethnically Chinese person of any citizenship to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was also the third person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Germany's Carl von Ossietzky (1935) and Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). He was the second person to have been denied the right to have a representative collect the Nobel Prize for him as well as the second to die in custody, with the first being Ossietzky. Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, blamed the Chinese communist regime for his death and said that "Liu Xiaobo had contributed to the fraternity of peoples through his non-violent resistance against the oppressive actions of the Communist regime in China." Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Yujuan Yue, Dongsheng Ren, Xiaobo Liu, Yujiao Wang, Qiyong Liu, Guichang LiGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2019)
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2by Wanwan Sun, Xiaobo Liu, Wen Li, Zhiyuan Mao, Jimin Sun, Liang LuGet access
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3by Liang Shen, Yongqin Liu, Baiqing Xu, Ninglian Wang, Huabiao Zhao, Xiaobo Liu, Fei LiuGet access
Published in Scientific Reports (2017)
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4by Liang Shen, Tandong Yao, Baiqing Xu, Hongmei Wang, Nianzhi Jiao, Shichang Kang, Xiaobo Liu, Yongqin LiuGet access
Published in Geoscience Frontiers (2012)
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5by Mengqi Guan, Lei Yao, Yu Zhen, Yang Song, Xiaobo Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Ruili Chen, Yan Cui, Shanshan LiGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2023)
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6by Soeren Metelmann, Xiaobo Liu, Liang Lu, Cyril Caminade, Keke Liu, Lina Cao, Jolyon M Medlock, Matthew Baylis, Andrew P Morse, Qiyong LiuGet access
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7by Shaowei Sang, Shaohua Gu, Peng Bi, Weizhong Yang, Zhicong Yang, Lei Xu, Jun Yang, Xiaobo Liu, Tong Jiang, Haixia Wu, Cordia Chu, Qiyong LiuGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2015)
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8by Meng Xu, Nan Chang, Taotian Tu, Jimin Sun, Jinyong Jiang, Yu Xia, Wenge Tang, Hengqing Ji, Xiaotao Zhao, Jin Zhu, Li Qi, Xiaobo Liu, Qiyong LiuGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2022)
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9by Michael Xiaoliang Tong, Alana Hansen, Scott Hanson-Easey, Scott Cameron, Jianjun Xiang, Qiyong Liu, Xiaobo Liu, Yehuan Sun, Philip Weinstein, Gil-Soo Han, Craig Williams, Peng BiGet access
Published in Malaria Journal (2017)
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