Surviving Tiananmen 'Gentlemen' mum on Chinese Nobel laureate's death

FILE PHOTO - Hou Dejian (right) and his fellow hunger strikers Liu Xiaobo, Zhou Duo, and Gao Xin talk to journalists in front of the Monument to People's Heroes before beginning their hunger strike in Beijing, China June 2, 1989. REUTERS/File Photo

BEIJING (Reuters) - Liu Xiaobo was one of the "Four Gentlemen" of Tiananmen Square, the group that staged a hunger strike in the final days of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in China and tried to hold off tanks and troops moving in to crush the student-led movement.

Liu, who died in state custody last week, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and was regarded as China's best-known dissident. But the other three have largely faded from the public eye and none have publicly commented on Liu or his death.