Beijing — A Chinese hospital said on Tuesday it was scrambling to save terminally ill Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, while human rights groups decried his treatment by the authorities and the leak of a video showing him in bed. The health of the prominent 61-year-old democracy advocate has deteriorated since authorities revealed last month that he had been transferred from prison to a hospital due to late-stage liver cancer. But Chinese officials have ignored calls by international human rights groups, western governments and local activists to grant Liu’s wish to be treated abroad, raising fears he will die without having tasted freedom. A day after reporting that Liu was in a critical condition, the First Hospital of China Medical University in the northeastern city of Shenyang said on Tuesday the patient was "still in active rescue". Liu had an abdominal infection, organ dysfunction and he went into septic shock, the hospital said on its website. He is undergoing kidney dialysis and ...
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