Liu Xiaobo RIP

[Last of the V8s]

"Even if I were crushed into powder, I would still use my ashes to embrace you." - to his wife.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40585327
Comparisons with the human rights record and propaganda efforts of Nazi Germany are particularly dismaying for Beijing after a period in which it feels it has successfully legitimised its one-party state on the world stage. At the G20 summit in Hamburg earlier this month, no world leader publicly challenged President Xi over Liu Xiaobo's treatment. With China increasingly powerful abroad and punitive at home, there are few voices raised on behalf of its political dissidents. -Carrie Gracie

There was a time, I was shocked by Chinese middle class disdain for dissidents, some of them relatively liberal point of view. Their first nerve reflex was always to find a reason to blame the dissidents. All the finger pointing to victims, instead of people who are arrested, tortured and imprisoned them; after all, the State apparatus is always the State apparatus. --Foreign policy (James Palmer) *07-11

[colossus]

Rest in Piece, Liu, we will always remember you!

[squatz1]

The man China couldn't erase, that's the big thing behind this guy and I do hope that he rests easy. It takes a real man to go against power and government and to fight for what he, and others think is right. In the face of a communist regime he fought for Democracy. Even while failing it gives way for more people to try to move forward with this, as we all know the communist party of China is going to be fighting for their own greed and themselves.

Rest in Peace, I hope others follow in the hard and lengthy fight for Democracy. I hope people feel as if he gives us hope, and us all hope towards Democracy.

[Sithara007]

The world failed him. Other nations could have done more to help Liu. Ever since the end of WW2, the world has turned a blind eye to the human rights atrocities happening inside China. Look at what is happening in Tibet and the other minority regions.

[TuckJeezyKEK]

RIP SIR

[freedomno1]

He did his best to change an era, but was drowned out in the cacophony of voices.
At the very least he did plant a ripple that could turn into a wave for changes in the future.
89 Exemplify

[centralbanksequalsbombs]

He did his best to change an era, but was drowned out in the cacophony of voices.
At the very least he did plant a ripple that could turn into a wave for changes in the future.
89 Exemplify

To those on the forum, curious (snip of wikipedia):
Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波, 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, writer, poet, anti-communist, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Communist single-party rule.[2] He was incarcerated as a political prisoner in Jinzhou, Liaoning.[3][4][5] On 26 June 2017, he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and he died in hospital on 13 July 2017.[6]

Liu rose to fame in literary circles with his literary critiques and he eventually became a visiting scholar at several overseas universities. He returned to China to support the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and was imprisoned for the first time from 1989 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1996 and he was imprisoned for the third time from 1996 to 1999 for his involvement in the democracy and human rights movement. He served as the President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, 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 Charter 08 manifesto. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009 on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power".[7][8] He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009,[9] and sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009.[10]

During his fourth prison term, Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".[11][12][13][14]

Liu was the first Chinese citizen to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China.[15] He was the third person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention, after Germany's Carl von Ossietzky (1935) and Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (1991),[16] and the second person to have been denied the right to have a representative collect the Nobel Prize for him and to die in custody, with the first being Ossietzky, who died in Westend hospital in Berlin-Charlottenburg after being detained in a Nazi concentration camp.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo