(Reuters) - Western leaders, rights groups and the Nobel Peace Prize committee expressed sorrow at the death of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo on Thursday, but reaction was muted in his homeland, where strict censorship made him less well-known than abroad.
The United States called on China to release prisoners of conscience and free his widow, Liu Xia, who remains under house arrest.
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