China releases jailed Nobel laureate with late-stage cancer
Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. "This type of cancer is very difficult to treat...would have been easier if...discovered sooner," Xiaobo's lawyer said. Liu was arrested in 2008 for penning a pro-democracy manifesto calling for an end to one-party rule and improvements in human rights.