Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese rights activist Liu Xiaobo, 61, died on Thursday night, after suffering multiple organ failures.
Liu was diagnosed with liver cancer on May 31, and, since Monday, was in intensive care at the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning province in northeast China.
Liu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, almost a year after he was handed an 11-year jail sentence for “inciting subversion of state power”, after he helped draft ‘Charter 08’, a petition that called for a slew of political reforms in China.
Born in Jilin Province, in northeast China, on December 28, 1955, Liu followed in his father’s footsteps and became a university professor.
He turned a rights campaigner after the Tiananmen protests of 1989 when he was arrested and lost his teaching job.
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