The hospital treating Nobel prize winner Liu Xiaobo has said he is now “seriously ill”.<br /><br />The jailed dissident was recently moved to hospital to be treated for late-stage liver cancer. <br /><br />Liu was jailed in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” after he helped write a petition calling for political reforms.<br /><br />In a statement the hospital said Liu was also suffering from kidney problems and that in his condition it was not appropriate to treat him with radiotherapy.<br /><br />His family has been informed, it said.<br /><br />Questions had earlier arisen over the possibility of Liu getting treatment abroad if authorities would let him. <br /><br />Human rights groups had called for Liu to be allowed to visit doctors overseas with his wife.<br />
