Doctors Say Chinese Dissident Is Fit to Travel for Cancer Treatment<br />By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ and CHRIS BUCKLEYJULY 9, 2017<br />BEIJING — Liu Xiaobo, the political prisoner and Nobel laureate who is on medical parole in a Chinese hospital to treat late-stage<br />liver cancer, is fit to travel abroad to receive medical care, doctors from the United States and Germany said on Sunday.<br />Germany said that He<br />Mary Beth Polley said that We continue to call on the Chinese authorities to grant Mr. Liu full parole<br />and to release his wife, Liu Xia, from house arrest and to allow them to travel to seek specialized care that would ease his suffering in his final days,<br />But First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang in northeastern China, which is treating Mr. Liu, invited German<br />and American doctors to evaluate him in person after facing intense pressure to allow the dissident to travel overseas for medical treatment.<br />Going abroad for treatment would probably require an exception from China’s rules for medical parole, the lawyer, Mr. Shang, said.<br />Wei Jingsheng, a prominent Chinese human rights activist who was imprisoned in 1994, left for<br />the United States while he was on medical parole and was treated by a hospital in Detroit.
