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Jailed Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo “Close to Death”

Warnings emerged on Thursday that Chinese democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for inciting subversion, is now close to death from his recently revealed liver cancer. From The Guardian’s Tom Phillips: The dissident writer has been receiving treatment at a hospital in the north-eastern city of Shenyang where, according to one report, he has been separated from other patients and is guarded