Activists are calling for Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Liu Xiaobo’s unconditional release

A growing chorus of Chinese human-rights lawyers and activists are calling for Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Liu Xiaobo’s unconditional release after he was granted medical parole to undergo treatment for late-stage liver cancer. The US also added its voice on Tuesday urging China to give Liu and his wife, Liu Xia, freedom to move and choose…

Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident imprisoned since 2009, has been released from confinement on medical parole, but his supporters are pressing for him to be allowed to seek treatment abroad for liver cancer. Liu, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in absentia in 2010, was diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer on May…