(Photo via AP)Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, China’s most prominent political prisoner, died Thursday at a hospital in the country’s northeast, officials said. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 while serving his fourth and final prison sentence, for inciting subversion by advocating sweeping political reforms and greater human rights in China. He was not permitted to do so and received an 11-year prison sentence. Released in 1999, he joined the international literary and human rights organization PEN and continued advocating for human rights and democracy. Two years after Liu’s Nobel prize, a Chinese writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature, to the delight of Chinese authorities.

Source: Indian Express July 13, 2017 13:57 UTC