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Liu Xiaobo's widow makes first appearance since his funeral

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SHANGHAI • The widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has appeared for the first time since her husband’s funeral in an online video in which she said she was recuperating and asked for time to mourn..
SHANGHAI • The widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has appeared for the first time since her husband’s funeral in an online video in which she said she was recuperating and asked for time to mourn.
Ms Liu Xia had been under effective house arrest since her husband, a prominent dissident since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, won the Nobel prize in 2010.
Mr Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power”, after he helped write a petition known as “Charter 08” calling for sweeping political reforms.
He died on July 13 after being denied permission to leave the country for treatment of late-stage liver cancer. Ms Liu had been allowed to visit him in prison about once a month and to remain with him while he was treated in his final days.
But friends of the couple said they have been unable to speak with her since her husband’s funeral, after which they say she returned to Beijing and has been staying with a friend.

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