{"id":34439,"date":"2013-06-15T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=34439 "},"modified":"2013-06-15T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T04:55:00","slug":"34439-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=34439","title":{"rendered":"China\\&#8217;s jailed Nobel\\&#8217;s wife pens open letter to Chinese leader to protest brother\\&#8217;s sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div><div>Published June 14, 2013<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>BEIJING &#8211; &nbsp;The wife of China&#8217;s jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner has written an open letter to new Chinese leader Xi Jinping to protest the 11-year prison term given to her brother.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>In the letter, Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s wife Liu Xia said the sentencing Sunday was unfair and urged Xi to govern China in a way that respects the rights of individuals and avoids &#8220;ruthless suppression based on violence.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>A Beijing court had convicted the brother, Liu Hui, of fraud in a real estate dispute. Family supporters have called the case retribution for Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s activism.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>The letter was handwritten and signed by &#8220;citizen Liu Xia.&#8221; Beijing lawyer Shang Baojun, who represented Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia&#8217;s brother, confirmed the authenticity of the letter, which he posted online.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><strong style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Continue reading&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/seeingredinchina.com\/2013\/01\/01\/a-chinese-dissident-makes-demands-of-xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/confronts-01042013141808.html\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seeingredinchina.com\/2013\/01\/01\/a-chinese-dissident-makes-demands-of-xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/01\/05\/china-officials-take-blame-in-deadly-shelter-fire\/\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seeingredinchina.com\/2013\/01\/01\/a-chinese-dissident-makes-demands-of-xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/08\/world\/asia\/supporters-back-strike-at-newspaper-in-china.html?ref=asia\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seeingredinchina.com\/2013\/01\/01\/a-chinese-dissident-makes-demands-of-xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">the<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/11\/world\/asia\/as-protest-ends-chinese-censorship-battle-remains.html?ref=asia\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/01\/10\/crusading-chinese-journalists-end-their-strike-but-dont-expect-media-freedoms-to-follow\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/tibetan-exile-pm-sends-new-year-message-of-solidarity\/1601111.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/north-korea-02132013133927.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/06\/14\/china-jailed-nobel-wife-pens-open-letter-to-chinese-leader-to-protest-brother\/#ixzz2WH0lWHlD\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">original article<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/nobel-01012013110843.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/nobel-01012013110843.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/nobel-01012013110843.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">.<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/nobel-01012013110843.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/nobel-01012013110843.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/nobel-01012013110843.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;A Beijing court had convicted the brother, Liu Hui, of fraud in a real estate dispute. Family supporters have called the case retribution for Liu Xiaobo&#39;s activism.&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-34439","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\/34439","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=34439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}