The two foreign specialists who visited Liu on Saturday said Sunday that the cancer-stricken Mr Liu is still able to travel abroad for treatment, apparently contradicting statements by Chinese experts who say a medical evacuation would be unsafe. (AP Photo)Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo, who is hospitalized with the late-stage liver cancer, is in "critical" condition, his hospital said Monday, and doctors are in “active rescue'' mode for China's best-known political prisoner. Mr Liu, 61, was moved from prison -- where he spent almost eight years -- to a hospital in the northeastern city of Shenyang recently after being diagnosed with liver cancer. Two Western doctors visited Mr Liu and said on Sunday that they deemed him strong enough to be evacuated, apparently contradicting Chinese expert opinion. The Western doctors said the evacuation would need to take place soon before Mr Liu's condition deteriorates further.

Source: Bangkok Post July 10, 2017 09:56 UTC