07/09/2017 13:38
Beijing, 7 sep (EFE).- Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, She has been able to return to her residence in Beijing after being forced to travel by the authorities but remains under strict surveillance, some of his closest friends assured Efe today.
Liu Xia returned to her home in the Chinese capital about ten days ago., after spending time in the southern province of Yunnan following the death of her husband, as explained by activist and writer Ye Du, after having spoken by phone with the poet and photographer recently.
The case and death of the Nobel Prize winner, one of China's best-known dissidents, It generated great international controversy as Liu Xiaobo became the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in custody after the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky., locked up in a Nazi concentration camp in 1938 for denouncing German rearmament.
Liu was sentenced to eleven years in prison for subversion in 2009, after having helped draft a manifesto calling for democracy, and died in a hospital under surveillance last July, after being diagnosed with late liver cancer in prison.
La Viuda de Liu Xiaobo, that since her husband was awarded the Nobel Prize ten years ago she has been under police arrest without any charge, She returns to Beijing ready to fight to leave the country and thus fulfill the will expressed by her spouse before dying..
"Le dije que debía tratar de salir del país, and she told me that she would try (to get it)", says his friend Ye Du.
The call between both, the first contact they have since the funeral, It was very short and was cut off abruptly when Ye Du mentioned the name of the deceased dissident.
"Estaba muy triste, I didn't want to talk much and when I mentioned Xiaobo, la línea se cortó bruscamente", Explain.
Renowned activist Hu Jia, also close to family, warns in statements to Efe that, as long as Liu Xia remains in China, estará "en una cárcel".
Days after Liu Xiaobo's funeral was held, a police car and several men - most of them without uniforms- They were watching their home in Beijing, as confirmed by a team from Efe and the European photography agency EPA.
The men, who identified themselves as supposed security guards, They prevented the journalists from passing and forced them to leave the enclave by pushing them., forcing them to eliminate any graphic documents they had taken.
Liu Xia's inner circle now assures that surveillance continues although it is unknown exactly what condition he is in..
Activists and human rights defenders urge Beijing to release the poet, a woman who - according to reports- lleva la última década siendo una víctima más de la "represión" of the regime, despite not having participated directly in the peaceful fight for democracy that her husband led. EFE
