Monday, December 31, 2012

Voice of America: Chinese Dissidents Make Rare Visit to Nobel Laureate's Wife

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
Chinese Dissidents Make Rare Visit to Nobel Laureate's Wife
Dec 31st 2012, 13:20

A small group of Chinese dissidents forced their way past security guards last week to visit the detained wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and deliver a message of support, one of the dissidents said on Monday. Liu, a veteran dissident involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests crushed by the Chinese army, won the prize in 2010. He was jailed the year before and is serving an 11-year sentence. His wife Liu Xia is under house arrest. She is rarely allowed out and ...

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