- Title: Memorial for Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winning political dissident Liu Xiaobo
- Date: 13th July 2018
- Summary: VARIOUS OF GERMAN SINGER/SONGWRITER AND FORMER EAST-GERMAN DISSIDENT WOLF BIERMANN SINGING CAMERA
- Embargoed: 27th July 2018 18:03
- Keywords: Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize memorial Herta Mueller Liao Yiw Ian Johnson
- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
- City: BERLIN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Reuters ID: LVA0038OL05DZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: QUALITY AS INCOMING
Human rights activists gathered in Berlin for a memorial service for Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo, while China warned supporters not to mark Friday's (July 13) anniversary of his death,
Liu died aged 61 on July 13 last year in a hospital in the northern city of Shenyang under close guard by security agents, after he was denied permission to leave China for treatment for late-stage liver cancer.
He had been jailed in 2009 for "inciting subversion" after he helped write and circulate a pro-democratic reform proposal known as "Charter 08", his last major act in a long career of activism beginning during the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing.
Liu Xiaobo was given an ocean burial, which prompted activists to flock to their nearest sea-shore to stage protests.
On Tuesday (July 10) Liu Xiaobo's widow Liu Xia arrived in Berlin, in news welcomed by rights groups who had long pressed for China to let her leave what was effectively house arrest. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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