First they told her to wait until the 19th Party Congress was over next they told her to wait until the conclusion of the ‘Two Sessions’ in Beijing in March of this year. I know that the Chinese Ministry of State Security agents that have been holding her under house arrest, since Xiaobo passed away last July and Liu Xia was forcibly taken to Dali in Yunnan for a while, have been promising her, again and again, guaranteeing that she’d be able to leave the country and seek treatment for her deep clinical depression. I felt like I’d just been shocked with a jolt of electricity. Using death to defy could not be any simpler for me.” Xiaobo is gone, and there’s nothing in the world for me now. She said: “Now, I’ve got nothing to be afraid of. in Germany, I spoke to Liu Xia at her home in Beijing.
Here you can also find an audio-link with tracks of the phone call.Liao Yiwu, dissident in exile, is the author of the book "God is red: the secret story of how Christianity survived and flourished in Communist China", HarperCollins, 2011. Here we present an appeal by the writer Liao Yiwu, long-time friend of Liu Xia, in which he explains the circumstances of a phone call that he had with her. Berlin (AsiaNews / China Change) - Liu Xia, the wife of the late dissident Liu Xiaobo, is in an almost desperate situation, subjected to isolation for years without having committed any crime.