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Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)

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Liu Xiaobo

Chinese human rights activist (1955–2017)

Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Chinese Communist Party one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as…
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Nobel Peace Prize

One of five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded…
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December 28

Day of the year

December 28 is the 362nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; three days remain until the end of the year.
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