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Tiananmen Square / Liu Xiaobo / Chinese government #1197093

NBC Evening News for Thursday, Jul 13, 2017
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A Nobel Prize winning champion of human rights in China has died. Liu Xiaobo was a leading dissident who came to prominence in 1989 during the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that were crushed by the Chinese government. He spent much of his life in prison or under house arrest, and authorities would not let him out to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. He was still in custody when he died of liver cancer today at the age of 61....
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