Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) was a firebrand literary critic, poet, and democracy activist. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, just months into an 11-year prison sentence that would ...

Last month, as the entire world watched, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo died in miserable conditions. Despite his wish to die as a free man and the efforts of countless individuals and ...

There was no sign of Liu Xiaobo in the Beijing coffee shop – a confusion over the place or time we had arranged to meet, I assumed. But he wasn’t answering his mobile phone and a call to his ...

The US may honour the late Liu Xiaobo by naming a street after him. Senator Ted Cruz has introduced a bill to rename the street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. “Liu Xiaobo ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

An Olympic star was handed a lifetime ban for a truly shocking incident involving a referee in 2008. Beijing, China, hosted the Summer Games in 2008, with the likes of Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and ...

In 2010, Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, represented by a portrait and an empty chair, was honored during the Nobel presentations in Oslo, Norway. Liu was in a ...

The best way to honor his memory is to press China to end torture and free other dissidents.

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