Thursday, 12 July 2018 ()
Hong Kong (AFP) July 10, 2018Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners Tuesday welcomed news that the widow of Chinese Nobel dissident Liu Xiaobo had left China for Germany after years under effective house arrest. Liu Xia, 57, had faced no charges but endured heavy restrictions on her movements since 2010 when her husband won the Nobel Peace Prize, infuriating Beijing. Friends said the poet had taken a Finnair flight to