SHANGHAI ¨C The Chinese widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has appeared for the first time since her husband¡¯s funeral in an online video in which she said she was recuperating and asked for time to mourn.
Liu Xia had been under effective house arrest since her husband, a prominent dissident since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, won the Nobel Prize in 2010. He died on July 13 after being denied permission to leave the country for treatment of late-stage liver cancer.
Liu Xia had been allowed to visit him in prison about once a month and to remain with him while he was treated in his final days.
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