The Trump administration called on the Chinese government to allow ailing rights advocate Liu Xiaobo to seek cancer treatment outside of China and to release his wife from house arrest.
The Trump administration called on the Chinese government to allow ailing rights advocate Liu Xiaobo to seek cancer treatment outside of China and to release his wife from house arrest.
“We remain concerned that both Mr. Liu and his family are unable to communicate with the outside world and that he is not free to seek the medical treatment of his choosing, ” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, reading from a prepared statement on the Nobel laureate during a briefing on Wednesday. “We continue to call on the Chinese authorities to grant him full parole and to release his wife from house arrest and provide them the protections and freedoms such as freedom of movement and access to appropriate medical care.
