Nobel Prize-winning Liu Xiaobo has died while fighting liver cancer in a northeast China hospital, still captive of the authoritarian government he battled for much of his life.
The renegade Chinese intellectual was serving an 11-year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power" by assisting in the writing of a petition calling for political reform. He had kept vigil on Tiananmen Square in 1989 to protect protesters from encroaching soldiers.
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