Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Nobel Laureate, Leaves Prison for Cancer Care
Liu Xiaobo said that The authorities must also stop their shameful and illegal house arrest of Liu Xiaobo’s wife, Liu Xia,
Patrick Poon said that The government should immediately allow Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia, to seek proper treatment wherever they wish.
By CHRIS BUCKLEY and AUSTIN RAMZYJUNE 26, 2017
BEIJING — Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Chinese dissident who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his writings promoting democracy,
has been given medical parole to be treated for late-stage cancer, his lawyers and the prison authorities said on Monday.
The United States National Cancer Institute says that patients with advanced and end-stage liver cancer can receive treatment to ease the symptoms, but
that "treatments are not likely to cure the cancer." The Chinese government will probably censor information about Mr. Liu’s illness to ensure that it does not cause wider political ripples, said Liang Xiaojun, a human rights lawyer in Beijing.
Sophie Richardson said that The Chinese government’s culpability for wrongfully imprisoning Liu Xiaobo is deepened by the fact
that they released him only when he became gravely ill,
Mr. Liu, who had been imprisoned in northeast China, was found in late May to have advanced liver cancer
and was hospitalized soon after, said one of the lawyers, Shang Baojun, citing Mr. Liu’s relatives.