Chinese Nobel laureate’s wife detained
Beijing: The wife of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo said she is under house arrest at her home in Beijing and pleaded for help in broadcasting her plight. “Brothers, I have returned home. On the eighth (October) they placed me under house arrest. I don’t know when I will be able to see anyone,” said a Sunday night posting on Liu Xia’s Twitter account. She said she had just returned from visiting her husband in a prison in northeastern China, where she informed Liu of his award, but that she was now being detained incommunicado. “My mobile phone is broken and I cannot call or receive calls. I saw Xiaobo and told him on the ninth at the prison that he won the prize. I will let you…
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