China's Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Dies a Prisoner at 61

Liu Xiaobo, China’s only Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, has died.

The 61-year-old political prisoner, who was diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer in May, was jailed in 2009 on charges of “inciting subversion against state power” after he helped pen a petition calling for multi-party democracy in the Communist Party-run state.

Despite his terminal condition, the Chinese authorities refused to let him leave the country to seek treatment abroad.