{"id":31699,"date":"2012-12-31T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31699 "},"modified":"2012-12-31T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T13:23:00","slug":"31699-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31699","title":{"rendered":"Chinese dissidents in rare visit to Nobel laureate\\&#8217;s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center; \">&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VJumioueaAo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Mon Dec 31, 2012 7:13am EST<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211; A small group of Chinese dissidents forced their way past security guards last week to visit the detained wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and deliver a message of support, one of the dissidents said on Monday.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Liu, a veteran dissident involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests crushed by the Chinese army, won the prize in 2010. He was jailed the year before and is serving an 11-year sentence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His wife Liu Xia is under house arrest. She is rarely allowed out and is almost never allowed to receive visitors.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Family friend and fellow dissident Hu Jia said he and a small group barged past guards at the apartment in Beijing&#8217;s western suburbs on Friday &#8211; Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s birthday &#8211; to be greeted by a tearful and surprised Liu Xia.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I feel it is our right as Chinese citizens to go and see her,&#8221; Hu told Reuters.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I told her about the 134 Nobel laureates who have called on the government to release her and her husband. She was overjoyed to hear about this, but she also felt a sense of hopelessness that the government would pay no attention,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;All I could say was that she should not give up hope.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hu said the visit lasted just a few minutes, and that Liu Xia expressed a fear the government would take retribution against her for the meeting. He later uploaded a video of the visit to YouTube.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama and author Toni Morrison, wrote to Communist Party chief Xi Jinping earlier this month, urging him to release detained Liu and his wife.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>China says Liu is a criminal and should be treated as such, dismissing criticism of the case as unwarranted interference in its internal affairs. Liu&#8217;s wife has not been convicted of any crime despite being under house arrest.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Pravin Char)<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Continue reading the<\/span><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idCABRE8BU05620121231\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;original article.&nbsp;<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/12\/31\/chinese-activists-defy-security-in-rare-visit-with-nobel-prizewinner-wife-under\/#ixzz2GehGsM00 \" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Associated Press: Chinese activists defy security in rare visit with Nobel prizewinner&#8217;s wife under house arrest<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;A small group of Chinese dissidents forced their way past security guards last week to visit the detained wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and deliver a message of support, one of the dissidents said on Monday.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}