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Liu Xiaobo: China criticised over late dissident's treatment
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AKIPRESS.COM - China is facing international criticism for not allowing its most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, to be treated abroad for terminal liver cancer, BBC reported.

The activist, who had been serving an 11-year prison term for "subversion", died in a hospital in China aged 61.

Amid tributes for the late campaigner, the Nobel Committee, which gave him the Peace Prize in 2010, said China bore a "heavy responsibility" for his death.

Beijing is now being urged to free his wife, poet Liu Xia, from house arrest.

There has been no official response yet from the Chinese government, and there is a virtual media blackout in China regarding Mr Liu's death, correspondents say.

But one state-run newspaper ran an editorial accusing "Western forces" of politicising the case.

Mr Liu died "peacefully" on Thursday afternoon, surrounded by his wife and other relatives, his main doctor Teng Yue'e said. His final words to Liu Xia were: "Live on well".

In a brief statement, Shenyang local officials said that Mr Liu had suffered multiple organ failure.

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