BEIJING • Madam Liu Xia, the widow of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo who died in detention in July, is back in Beijing but still under house arrest, a Hong Kong group said yesterday..
Liu Xiaobo’s widow back in Beijing
BEIJING • Madam Liu Xia, the widow of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo who died in detention in July, is back in Beijing but still under house arrest, a Hong Kong group said yesterday.
Mr 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 Madam Liu, 56, explained in a «very weakened voice» that she was under treatment with anti-depressants.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Red Bull heir: Third charge expires
BANGKOK • A third criminal charge against the fugitive heir to Thailand’s Red Bull fortune over a fatal hit-and-run case expired yesterday but prosecutors said it would not affect their heavily criticised attempts to bring him to justice.
