BEIJING: China’s cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is in a critical condition, his hospital said Monday, raising fears about his life a day after Western doctors said there was time to take him abroad. The First Hospital of China Medical University in the northeastern city of Shenyang said Liu’s tumor has grown and his liver is bleeding. Human rights activists said the hospital’s latest statement shows the authorities are dragging their feet. Liu was arrested in 2008 after co-writing Charter 08, a bold petition that called for the protection of basic human rights and reform of China’s one-party Communist system. At the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in 2010, he was represented by an empty chair.

Source: Manila Times July 10, 2017 11:15 UTC