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Hong Kong holds memorial for Chinese Nobel laureate Liu

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Hundreds turned out in Hong Kong Wednesday night to pay their respects to late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, the pro-democracy Chinese dissident whose death in custody shocked the world. Liu, a government critic and thorn in the side of the authorities for decades, died last…
Hundreds turned out in Hong Kong Wednesday night to pay their respects to late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, the pro-democracy Chinese dissident whose death in custody shocked the world.
Liu, a government critic and thorn in the side of the authorities for decades, died last week aged 61 after losing a battle with cancer, more than a month after he was transferred to a hospital from prison on the mainland.
The prominent democracy advocate, a veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, had been sentenced to 11 years in jail in 2009 for “subversion”.
His death prompted an outpouring of grief in semi-autonomous Hong Kong, where pro-democracy forces must also contend with an increasingly assertive Beijing.
His ashes were buried at sea on Saturday, depriving supporters of a place to pay tribute, though thousands in the Asian financial hub took to the streets Saturday night, holding candles as they marched in his memory.

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