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Liu Xiaobo: China’s Most Prominent Dissident Dies

In: BBC News, 2017

Reports on death in custody of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was prominent in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstration and continued to defy the regime. He was serving an 11-year sentence for his role in promoting Charter 08 in 2008, calling for multi-party democracy. The report elaborates on his life and the responses to his death.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40597514