China's propaganda war over dying Nobel Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo

He is China's number one dissident, described in the press here as a criminal, for others a hero of Chinese democracy. Either way, Liu Xiaobo's collapsing body is at the heart of a struggle to control the message over the meaning of his fast approaching death.
China's dying Nobel Peace Prize winner is at the centre of an information war.
The country's state-run media say Liu Xiaobo's cancer "mustn't be politicised" as they publish leaked recordings of him under surveillance while in jail and now in hospital.
International human rights groups say they are dismayed he is still being held under guard to the very end and the German government says China's security forces are running the treatment of this terminally ill patient rather than doctors.
The truth is that the Chinese government knows this all looks bad.
Not since Nazi Germany has a Nobel Peace Prize winner died while in custody and that is exactly what is unfolding here.
Bedside show
Following a diagnosis of terminal, late-stage liver cancer, Chinese officials moved him from prison to hospital to see out his remaining days under guard but with better medical care.
Nobody is doubting the genuine effort of the Chinese doctors who have tried to help Liu Xiaobo nor their professional capability.
Eleven years
Liu Xiaobo has been held since soon after the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
He was given an eleven-year jail term for "inciting subversion of state power" after he and others co-authored a manifesto called "Charter '08" advocating a sweeping democratic overhaul of China's system of government.
One of the most risky things you could possibly do in China is promote any form of organising around the overthrow of Communist Party monopoly power.
While in custody in 2010 he won the Nobel Peace Prize which was awarded to an empty chair in his absence.
Source:http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40552818