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In a July 2017 photo released by the Shenyang Municipal Information Office, Liu Xia, wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, holds a portrait of him during his funeral at a funeral parlor in Shenyang in northeastern China

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China Allows Widow Of Prominent Dissident To Leave The Country

1:43pm July 10, 2018

Liu Xia left Beijing on Tuesday for Germany, bringing nearly eight years of virtual house arrest to an end. She is the widow of the late Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo.

In a photo provided Saturday by the Shenyang Municipal Information Office, Liu Xia, center, the widow of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, holds a portrait of him during his funeral. She stands with Liu Hui, her younger brother (left) and Liu Xiaoxuan, the yo

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After Liu Xiaobo's Death, Concerns Grow For His Widow's Well-Being

3:09pm July 18, 2017

by Anthony Kuhn

Officials say Liu Xia is "free" but foreign reporters who've sought her out say they were harassed by security officials. Friends say her isolation during house arrest has thrown her into depression.

A chair sat empty for Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in Oslo, Norway, in 2010. The rights activist was imprisoned in China in 2009.

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Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate And Human Rights Advocate Liu Xiaobo Dies

11:52am July 13, 2017

by Anthony Kuhn

The 61-year-old dissident died after more than seven years in prison. He was a prominent critic of China's government. "There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom," he wrote.

Protesters display portraits of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Liu has expressed the wish to leave China for medical treatment, but the government has refused.

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As China's Strength Has Grown, So Has Its Unwillingness To Let Dissidents Leave

3:35pm July 12, 2017

by Anthony Kuhn

China has refused to let Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, now near death, obtain medical treatment abroad. Beijing released dissidents in the past, but it no longer needs to cave in to foreign pressure.

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A video clip shows China's jailed Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo on a computer screen, lying on a bed receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Beijing. China says it has invited U.S. and German liver cancer experts to join a medical team treating Liu

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China Allows Foreign Experts To Treat Terminally Ill Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo

10:19am July 05, 2017

by Chris Benderev

Cancer specialists from the United States, Germany and other countries will join the medical team treating a political dissident detained by China since 2008. He has late-stage liver cancer.

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose image is seen here during a pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong last year, has been granted medical parole.

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China Releases Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo From Prison After Cancer Diagnosis

1:16pm June 26, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Liu was serving an 11-year prison sentence for what the government called "incitement to subvert state power." Liu has terminal cancer, his lawyer says.