He died in a Shenyang hospital from cancer.. Had 61 years. The Chinese government denied him the possibility of treatment outside the country. (ver video)
Shenyang, Chinese July 13 2017 13:08
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, died today at 61 years old due to cancer, the authorities indicated, después de que Pekín se negara a dejarlo salir del país asiático donde cumplía una condena por "subversión".
Liu, iconic Chinese pro-democracy activist, He was released on parole and admitted to Shenyang Hospital., in northeast China, after being detained for eight years, announced at the end of June the communist regime.
The Shenyang legal office confirmed his death in a statement..
Doctors had diagnosed this writer and literature professor with terminal liver cancer last May., who had been a leader of the Tiananmen democratic movement in 1989 and enemy of the communist regime.
The news of his hospitalization at the end of June provoked criticism from several human rights organizations and Nobel's relatives., who reproached Beijing for not allowing him to leave prison, but the Chinese government insisted that Liu receive care from prestigious oncologists.
The dissident wanted to be hospitalized abroad, and several countries, including the United States and Germany, They asked the Chinese government to agree to that request, But Beijing rejected the calls from the international community, considering them interference in its internal affairs..
"Hasta la muerte".
The University Hospital Nº1 of Shenyang had assured at the beginning of July that, given Liu's health status, habría sido "peligroso" move it abroad. But two Western doctors, an American and a German who traveled to China to treat the patient, They contradicted local medical authorities and considered it possible to take him to another country.
Ye Du, a dissident close to Liu's family, afirmó que Pekín quería detener al opositor político "hasta la muerte". Outside China, Liu "podría expresarse políticamente como premio Nobel, lo cual tendría un impacto negativo sobre el partido y el país", Ye Du told AFP.
Liu Xiaobo was sentenced in 2009 a 11 años de reclusión por "subversión" after having demanded democratic reforms. He is one of the authors of a bold manifesto, the letter 08, who called for free elections. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. He learned from his cell that he had been granted.
El comité Nobel quiso recompensar aquel año "un largo combate no violento por los derechos humanos fundamentales en China". At the delivery ceremony in Oslo, his absence was staged with an empty chair.
"Nos parece profundamente perturbador que Liu Xiaobo no haya sido transferido a un hospital en el que podría haber recibido un tratamiento médico adecuado antes de que su enfermedad entrara en fase terminal", declared this Thursday the president of the Nobel committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen. "El gobierno chino tiene una gran responsabilidad por su muerte prematura", added in a statement.
"Amor contra odio".
German Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, paid tribute to Liu on Twitter. "Su resistencia por la no violencia lo convirtió en un héroe de la lucha a favor de la democracia y los derechos humanos", wrote.
In a text read during the Nobel ceremony, in which he was represented by an empty chair, Liu - more moderate than some Chinese dissidents in exile- reafirmó su intención de "responder a la hostilidad del régimen con buena voluntad y al odio con amor".
El régimen chino se indignó entonces por la atribución del Nobel a "un condenado" and froze relations with Norway until December 2016.
Since President Xi Jinping came to power at the end of 2012, Political repression has increased in the Asian giant. After having repressed human rights defenders, the regime also persecuted his lawyers, arresting dozens of jurists and activists.
The name of the Nobel Prize winner is taboo in the official press, salvo en los diarios chinos de lengua inglesa que califican a Liu de "criminal". The dissident is unknown to a large part of the population of his country.
