Chinese Nobelist's Wife Evicted By Police
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BEIJING — The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner's wife Liu Xia was being forced to leave her home in Beijing by plainclothes police officers Friday, she told Reuters during a phone interview shortly after the prize was awarded.
The officers said they wanted to take Liu to the prison in Jinzhou in the northeastern province of Liaoning, where her husband Liu Xiaobo is being held in an apparent effort to prevent foreign reporters from speaking to her, she said.
"They are forcing me to leave Beijing," said Liu as her brothers packed her bags with plainclothes police waiting for her outside.
"They want me to go to Liaoning to see Xiaobo. They want to distance me from the media," she added.
She had been giving interviews to journalists by phone and a statement by her was also issued the Freedom Now human rights group, following the announcement that Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion, had won the prize at 5 a.m. ET.
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