Chinese dissident Liu Xia, widow of Liu Xiaobo, speaks out for the first time in New York

Liu Xia, the widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winning political dissident Liu Xiaobo, has made her first formal appearance since leaving China. She attended an event in New York on September 26, 2018, and spoke briefly about her late husband. Liu Xia relocated to Germany in July after spending the better part of a decade under house arrest in China.