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Nobel laureate's wife barred from meeting Norway officials
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Nobel laureate's wife barred from meeting Norway officials
BEIJING (AFP) - – The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo said Wednesday she was prevented from meeting with Norwegian diplomats as authorities kept her under tight house arrest.
Liu Xia has been largely confined to her home since Friday when the Nobel Committee in Oslo awarded this year's prize to her dissident husband for advocating political reform and respect for human rights in China.
"Yesterday, Norwegian diplomats came to offer support for me and were barred outside the main gates," she said on her Twitter account.
Liu Xia said Tuesday she hoped to travel to Norway to accept the award for her husband, who was sentenced last December to 11 years in jail on subversion charges after co-authoring "Charter 08", which calls for bold political reform.
The Norwegian embassy confirmed that two diplomats had gone to visit her, but did not gain access to her apartment.
They were "outside the gates of her compound, (having come) to check on her condition," embassy spokeswoman Tone Helene Aarvik told AFP, refusing to provide more details.
Liu Xia has been communicating with the outside world via Twitter after her cellphone was cut off earlier in the week.
A replacement phone now has also been cut off, Liu said in a tweet late Tuesday.
"I had the phone for only a day and already it has been cut off by the hoodlums," she said in the one-line post.
One of her husband's lawyers said Wednesday they also had no way of reaching her.
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"We can't contact her at the moment. We are just waiting and hopefully we can find a way to get in touch soon," attorney Shang Baojun told AFP.
Liu Xia has sent a handful of messages via her Twitter account Liuxia64 with brief updates on her situation since Friday.
She has been under house arrest since the award was announced, except for a weekend trip under police escort to the prison in northeastern China where her husband is jailed.
The controls on her are apparently aimed at preventing her from talking to reporters as part of a huge campaign by the government -- which is furious over the award -- to stifle news of the prize in China's media and on the Internet.
On Tuesday, Shang said Liu Xia wanted to ask a higher court for a retrial of her husband.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman refused to comment on her case when asked about it at a regular news briefing on Tuesday.
The United States, one of many countries that has called for Liu Xiaobo's immediate release, on Tuesday expressed concern about Liu Xia.
"Her rights should be respected, and she should be allowed to move freely without harassment," a spokesman for the US embassy in Beijing said.
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