What fate awaits wife of late Chinese dissident?
US and EU urge Beijing government to free the missing wife of deceased Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo
Beijing — Friends of the late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo worried about the fate of his widow on Sunday, with no signs that authorities have freed her after the dissident’s sea burial. Close friends lost touch with the poet Liu Xia after her husband died on Thursday of liver cancer aged 61 while he was in police custody at a hospital in the northeastern city of Shenyang. At her building in Beijing, a security guard sat in front of the elevator on Sunday night and a plainclothes man, who refused to identify himself, ushered AFP journalists away after they rang her apartment number. The US and EU have called on President Xi Jinping’s government to free Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest since 2010, and let her go abroad. The authorities released images of the grieving wife at a private funeral on Saturday and later on a boat with relatives as they lowered an urn containing her husband’s ashes into the sea off the coastal city of Dalian. "We are very worried. We saw from the author...
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