Family members urge Beijing to offer medical parole to dissidents

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4 June 2010
20:02
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According to the Hong Kong Information Centre for Human Rights & Democracy (4 June), a Hong Kong-based fax service which reports on dissidence, protests and human rights violations in China, Liu Xia, wife of prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo, and Zhou Yangyang, sister of dissident Zhou Yongjun, have called on the authorities today to offer medical parole to the two, who are suffering seriously from ulcer and tumour, respectively.

So long as the government will not cut my phone line, Liu Xia says that she is willing to explain Liu Xiaobo's recent conditions via long-distance phone at the '4 June' vigil held tonight in Hong Kong.

Source: Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong, in Chinese 4 Jun 10