Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on a parole

Noted Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on a medical parole. He was diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer last month and is being treated at a hospital in the northeastern city of Shenyang, according to his lawyer. Liu, who is 61, was sentenced to 11 years in prison…

Beijing (dpa) – Chinese writer and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo said he had “no enemies” when he was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 for subversion of state power. One year later, Liu, who in his decades-long career has called for political reform and the end of China’s one-party rule, was awarded the…