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Under house arrest of 2010 without formalizing any charge, Liu Xia widow of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, left China . After the green light from the Beijing authorities – twice refused at the last moment – the woman took a flight this morning for Berlin . "He left the country for medical treatment, of his own free will," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying at a press conference, adding that he did not have any other details. Hua also denied that the decision is not related to the official visit of Prime Minister Li Keqiang to Berlin, scheduled this week.
"It's easier to die than to live," he said in early May. Liu Xia in a phone call to his friend Liao Yiwu, who then denounced the health of the Chinese poet and artist on ChinaChange.org a site that fights for the protection of civil rights. The woman's health conditions were in fact physically and psychologically deteriorated – she was suffering from depression – because of the isolation and the close supervision to which she was submitted. submitted since her husband was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu Xiaobo died a year ago while he was serving an 11-year prison sentence for "inciting subversion of state powers", for having inspired "Charter 08 ", the plan of reform and the end of the single communist party. The death of the man has further aggravated the illness of the woman, who declared herself ready to let herself die in protest. The seriousness of the situation had recently prompted the UN to urge China.
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