Sunday, October 1, 2017

Widow of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo ‘back in Beijing’

Lu Siqing, founder of the Hong Kong-

based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, said he spoke to her by phone at her Beijing home on Saturday.
He said a tearful Ms Liu, 56, explained in a “very weakened voice” that she was under treatment with strong anti-depressants.
“Various friends of Liu Xia confirmed that she was back in her apartment” in the Chinese capital, “and that her home was kept under surveillance by guards and police dressed in civilian clothes”, the NGO said in a separate statement.