Liu Xiaobo's wife was kept under house arrest and nearly incommunicado for eight years, without ever being charged, on account of being married to Nobel-prize w

Liu Xiaobo's wife was kept under house arrest and nearly incommunicado for eight years, without ever being charged, on account of being married to Nobel-prize winning dissident. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2148922/wife-chinese-dissident-liu-xiaobo-feels-she-serving https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/10/liu-xia-wife-liu-xiaobo-late-nobel-peace-prize-winner-leaves-china/770490002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/10/liu-xia... It take's a rather famous case to make it into the Western news, but I have a close Chinese-national friend who's under the strong impression that dissident activity would be bad for her parents.