The Nobel Peace Prize 2010
Awarded on: 2010-10-08
"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"
Liu Xiaobo
Born: 1955-12-28 in Changchun, China
Gender: male
Field: Chinese human rights activist (1955–2017)
Biography
Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Chinese Communist Party one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner. On 26 June 2017, he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with liver cancer; he died a few weeks later on 13 July 2017.