China's jailed Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo dies at 61

China's jailed Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo dies at 61

File photo taken in April 2008 shows Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo. Chinese officials announced on July 13, 2017, that Liu, who was detained and imprisoned numerous times for his advocacy of human rights and democracy in China, had died of multiple organ failure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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