Liu Xiaobo, the renegade Chinese intellectual who kept vigil at Tiananmen Square in 1989 to protect protesters from encroaching soldiers, promoted a pro-democracy charter that brought him a lengthy prison sentence and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while locked away, died under guard in a hospital on Thursday. He was 61. (New York Times,… Read more.
Lesson of Tiananmen Square for Chinese gov: Jails can be just as effective as tanks
Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 7:53 AM