My dear husband Liu Xiaobo, the writer China has put behind bars | World news | The Observer 5.0 star rating

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/28/liu-xia-china-dissident-xiaobo

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Liu Xia's wedding day in 1996 turned out to be good preparation for the following 14 years of married life. She and her groom, Liu Xiaobo, ate a modest celebratory lunch with relatives. Then she returned home, leaving her new husband to continue serving his sentence in the re-education-through-labour camp.
It does not sound like much of a wedding, but the poet still smiles when she thinks of it. "I was very happy," she says, "because once we were officially married I could visit him."

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Created by DrPot on 28 February 2010

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good that a major uk paper is gettingfocus on this.

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