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Liu Xiaobo: The man China couldn’t erase

By Carrie Gracie|BBCNEWS Activist Liu Xiaobo has died after spending eight years in prison. “There is nothing criminal in anything I have done but I have no complaints.” So stated Liu Xiaobo in court in 2009, and in the eight long prison years between then and now, he refused to recant his commitment to democracy. No wonder China’s leaders are as afraid of him in death as they were in life.…