Liu Xia, wife of late Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, ‘back in Beijing’
Hong Kong-based activist speaks to Liu Xia in tearful phone call to her home in the Chinese capital
Liu Xia, the wife of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, has returned to her Beijing home, human rights activists said after speaking to her on the phone on Saturday.
The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said its founder, Frank Lu Siqing, spoke to Liu Xia on the phone for half an hour after calling her at her home in the Chinese capital.
Friends and supporters had been concerned about Liu Xia’s whereabouts since her husband’s death from liver cancer in July.
In a statement, Lu said Liu told him in the tearful phone call that she did not have the urn used to hold Liu Xiaobo’s ashes before his sea burial.
Lu said he also asked Liu to stop taking medication for depression.
“Liu, speaking in a weak voice, explained to me that she could not stop taking the drug,” he said. “I told her that those drugs are not safe.