NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE
China dissident Liu critically ill, says hospital
Beijing — China’s cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo suffered respiratory failure while his condition deteriorated on Wednesday, his hospital said, as Germany offered to host him and rights groups decried the lack of independent information. The First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang said Liu’s family had declined to have him put on artificial ventilation, which was necessary "to maintain life". "The hospital has explained the necessity of tracheal intubation to the patient’s family. The family refused the tracheal intubation," the hospital said. The hospital, which earlier reported that Liu had suffered organ failure, said the 61-year-old democracy advocate’s liver function had declined despite three days of blood treatment and anti-infection treatment. Liu, who has been held since 2008 for "subversion", risks becoming the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to die in custody since German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who died in a hospital under the Nazis in 193...
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