Detained widow of Liu Xiaobo tells friend she is ready to ‘die at home’ in protest

An exiled Chinese writer says that Liu Xia, widow of dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, told him in a phone conversation on Monday that she is ready to “die at home” in protest after being kept under house arrest for nearly eight years and unable to leave China.

Berlin-based writer Liao Yiwu wrote an open letter published on Wednesday by US-based human rights website China Change, which also carried an audio recording of an earlier phone conversation between Liao and Liu from April 8.