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– After Liu Xiaobo: Tributes, ramped-up censorship, and calls to free Liu Xia (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News July 29, 2017

After his death, not only was Liu's name censored on social media platforms, even phrases containing the word "thunder" – a homophone for "tears" in Chinese – and the candle emoji were removed by censors.
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