Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) was a firebrand literary critic, poet, and democracy activist. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, just months into an 11-year prison sentence that would ...

There was no sign of Liu Xiaobo in the Beijing coffee shop – a confusion over the place or time we had arranged to meet, I assumed. But he wasn’t answering his mobile phone and a call to his ...

The couple's romance has played out in labour camps, prisons and under house arrest, with the Chinese state always a third wheel Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate ...

Chinese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has been cremated in a private ceremony in the north-eastern city of Shenyang. His ashes were later scattered in the sea, his brother said.

As China’s government faces mounting international pressure to grant imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo his wish to leave the country for treatment of advanced liver cancer ...

Liu Xia appeared in the video, but it is not clear if it was filmed under duress The widow of Chinese activist and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo has appeared in an online video - her first appearance ...

"There is nothing criminal in anything I have done but I have no complaints." So stated Liu Xiaobo in court in 2009, and in the eight long prison years between then and now, he refused to recant ...

When Liu Xiaobo was formally awarded his Nobel Peace prize in 2010, he was represented at the ceremony by an empty chair. By then, the dissident academic was in prison again, this time serving an ...

An empty chair by the seashore has become a memorial symbol for Liu Xiaobo online A social media movement - styled as a "global memorial" - has been launched to mourn and commemorate the loss of ...

Liu Xiaobo - who has died of cancer aged 61 - used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 2010 to restate a core belief he held for his whole life - that freedom of expression was a ...

Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who was China's most prominent human rights and democracy advocate, has died aged 61. The activist had been serving an 11-year prison term for "subversion" and was ...

The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize says it is "deeply worried" about the widow of Liu Xiaobo, China's most prominent critic who died of liver cancer on Thursday. The Norwegian Nobel ...