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Jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner meets with wife

Other News Materials 10 October 2010 22:43 (UTC +04:00)
The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo said that she met with her husband on Sunday but that she was now under indefinite house arrest, DPA reported.
Jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner meets with wife

The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo said that she met with her husband on Sunday but that she was now under indefinite house arrest, DPA reported.

"I met with Xiaobo on the evening of the ninth and told him about his award," Liu Xia said in a post on her Twitter account, which was quickly forwarded on by other Chinese activists.

Liu said that she had been placed under house arrest since October 8 and her mobile phone had been broken.

Earlier, Hong Kong media reported that Liu met with her husband after being taken to Jinzhou in north-eastern China where Liu Xiaobo is imprisoned, citing the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy which had made contact with Liu Xia's mother.

There had been concern for the whereabouts of Liu Xia after police escorted her from her Beijing home late Friday. She was unable to be reached by mobile phone over the weekend.

Liu Xiaobo, a prominent writer and one of China's leading dissidents, is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion after being arrested in December 2008 for his part in writing the Charter '08 for democratic reform.

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