[Propertalk] Please remember in our prayers today Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize who died today

[Joe Parrish]

Please remember in our prayers today Liu Xiaobo  the Chinese winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize who died today. 

 

I believe one pronunciation of his name would be LEE-You SHEE-AH-BOW. 

 

Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo dies

07/13/2017 9:37

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has died, the
government of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, where he was being
treated for late-stage liver cancer, said on Thursday.<>  Liu, 61, was
jailed for 11 years in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power" after
he helped write a petition known as "Charter 08" calling for sweeping
political reforms.

He was recently moved from jail to a hospital in Shenyang.

 
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Liu Xiaobo ( <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters>
Chinese: ÁõÏþ²¨;  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin> pinyin: Li¨² Xi¨£ob
¨­; born 28 December 1955 ¨C 13 July 2017)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-1> [1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-2> [2] was a Chinese
literary critic, writer, human rights activist and [2010]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize> Nobel Peace Prize laureate
who called for political reforms and the end of
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China> communist
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-party_rule> single-party rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-EB-3> [3]He was
incarcerated as a  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoner>
political prisoner in  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinzhou> Jinzhou,
Liaoning. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-4> [4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-5> [5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-6> [6] On 26 June 2017,
he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver
cancer. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-7> [7]

Liu served as the President of the Independent Chinese
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_PEN> PENCenter, from 2003 to
2007. He was also the president of Minzhu Zhongguo (Democratic China)
magazine since the mid-1990s. On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained due to
his participation with the  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_08>
Charter 08 manifesto. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009 on suspicion
of " <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciting_subversion_of_state_power>
inciting subversion of state power".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-8> [8]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-chnrev-9> [9] He was
tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009,
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-canyu-10> [10] and
sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of
political rights on 25 December 2009.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-judg-11> [11]

 

During his fourth prison term, Liu was awarded the
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Nobel_Peace_Prize> 2010 Nobel Peace
Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in
China." <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-12> [12]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-nobel-announcement-13>
[13] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-rthk-nobel-14> [14]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-15> [15] He is the first
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people> Chinese citizen to be awarded
a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-16> [16] Liu is the
third person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or
detention, after Germany's
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Ossietzky> Carl von Ossietzky (1935)
and Burma's  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi> Aung San Suu
Kyi(1991). <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo#cite_note-wachter-17>
[17] Liu is also the second person (the first being Ossietzky) to have been
denied the right to have a representative collect the Nobel prize for him.

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Micah 6:8 -- ¡®do justice, love mercy¡¯ 

 

Thanks.

Peace and blessings,

Joe

 

 

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