The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. April 9, 2012 Chinese Dissident Fang Lizhi, 76, Dies --------------------------------------- One of China's best-known dissidents Fang Lizhi has died at the age of 76. He was viewed as a key figure in the pro-democracy movement behind the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. .