; Whereas Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 8, 2010, for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China ; Whereas Liu Xiaobo’s wife, Liu Xia, has been held in extra-legal home confinement since October 2010, two weeks after her husband’s Nobel Peace Prize award was announced, and has reportedly suffered severe health problems over the years which required hospitalization; Whereas in May 2011, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued opinions declaring that the Chinese government’s imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo and the detention of Liu Xia both contravened the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Whereas Liu Xiaobo has also received over a dozen awards and honors from several international groups for his work as a defender of the press, an outstanding democratic activist, and a defender of human rights; Whereas Liu Xiaobo was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer in May 2017; Whereas Liu Xiaobo died on July 13, 2017, while serving his 11-year prison sentence; and Whereas Liu Xiaobo dedicated his life to human rights, not only in his own country, but across the globe;