By María Carolina Piña
Reuters
A poster calling for the release of Liu Xiaobo, during a
demonstration in Hong Kong, he 29 June 2017.
Two Western doctors concluded that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, suffering from terminal cancer, could leave China to receive medical help, thus contradicting the statements of the Chinese doctors who considered “dangerous” the transfer of the Nobel Prize.
The delicate state of health of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, has become the core of a battle of claims. Xiaobo, who was on parole, He was transferred to a hospital due to terminal liver cancer.
His family had expressed their desire for the dissident to finish his treatment in a hospital in the United States or Germany.. The request was opposed on Saturday by Chinese doctors at the Shenyang hospital, in northeast China, where you are admitted, who assured in a statement that it would be “dangerous” transfer the patient.
The same Saturday, Two Western specialists visited Liu Xiaobo and confirmed that he was suffering from terminal cancer and validated the ongoing treatment.. However, They stated that Liu could receive palliative care outside of China.
“There is of course a risk in the transfer of any patient, "But Liu can be transported safely, respecting proper medical evacuation measures.", the doctors who examined the Nobel Prize winner stated in a statement, Joseph M. Herman of the University of Texas Medical Center and Markus Büchler of the University of Heidelberg.
Liu Xiaobo, of 61 years, He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 although the Chinese authorities did not allow him to travel to Oslo for the delivery ceremony. A year earlier he had been sentenced to 11 years in prison for having participated in the drafting of the Carta manifesto 08, who demanded free elections.
Since Liu Xiaobo was hospitalized, France, USA, Germany and the European Parliament have pressured Beijing to authorize the dissident to receive treatment abroad.
Various NGOs and Liu's associates blame Beijing for having waited for his health condition to worsen before allowing him to leave prison.. His case brought to light the fate of dissidents and lawyers in China, whose repression has intensified after the arrival of Xi Jinping to the presidency, at the end of 2012.
