China mounts Nobel Prize security crackdown

Chinese security agents launched a wide-ranging clampdown on dissidents today, hours before the award Nobel Peace Prize award to imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo.

China mounts Nobel Prize security crackdown

Chinese security agents launched a wide-ranging clampdown on dissidents today, hours before the award Nobel Peace Prize award to imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo.

Uniformed and plainclothes officers guarded the entrance to the compound in central Beijing where Mr Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, has lived under house arrest since the October announcement that her husband would receive the prize.

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