“The German Embassy knows all about my situation. I waited a little while and called her back, and she cried out in tears:
She then panicked, after that threw the phone down. I insisted on Liu Xia writing another application to leave the country, and at first Liu Xia demurred again and again. Luckily I had her handwriting attesting to the opposite, and remarkably this became the strongest evidence that punctured the lies. In the first instance, I called and poured out my concern: I feared that Liu Xia would once again be ‘disappeared.’ I worried that the Chinese government would do the same as they did last year when they announced that Xiaobo and Liu Xia didn’t want to leave the country. The following statements were transcribed from audio recordings of our conversation that evening.
I said to her that I would publicize her cries, which was uncontrollable even with her taking large doses of antidepressants, in the evening of April 8, 2018. I will take action, and I will selectively reveal some truth that I have been holding back. In my April 30 conversation with Liu Xia, I said I’d no long keep it quiet. When Liu Xia told Xiaobo that a special rescue squad in Germany (including the 82-year-old Wolf Biermann and wife) were working to help them, Xiaobo, dying, was moved to tears. As long as she is in China, we have no way of looking after her. We’ve been low key about it because after Xiaobo’s death, Liu Xia has been devastated, and the clinical depression she had suffered for years came back worse than ever, driving her to the brink of mental collapse. Liu Xia has no criminal record, and according to the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, she has the freedom to travel wherever she wishes. We’ve all quietly awaited this special patient. We’ve all been patiently and quietly waiting. Due to Herta Muller’s support, the Literature House in Berlin was willing to provide her an apartment for an interim period, Carolin and Silvia were going to prepare an application for a DAAD (‘Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst’) scholarship for artists, and Peter Sillem had already reached out to hospitals and experts on her behalf. In my own calls with Liu Xia, I sought Liu Xia’s opinions many times, and discussed the matter in meetings and correspondence with good friends Herta Muller, Harry Merkle, Carolin, Silvia, and the international representative of Liu Xia’s photographic art Peter Sillem.
On April 1, before Liu Xia’s 57th birthday, the German Ambassador called her to convey Chancellor Merkel’s special respects, and invited her to play badminton in Berlin before long.Īccording to my information, in early April the German Foreign Minister had already made specific arrangements, including as to how they’d not alert the news media, how they’d covertly collect Liu Xia at the airport, and how they’d arrange her treatment and recovery and more. First they told her to wait until the 19th Party Congress was over next they told her to wait until the conclusion of the ‘Two Sessions’ in Beijing in March of this year. I know that the Chinese Ministry of State Security agents that have been holding her under house arrest, since Xiaobo passed away last July and Liu Xia was forcibly taken to Dali in Yunnan for a while, have been promising her, again and again, guaranteeing that she’d be able to leave the country and seek treatment for her deep clinical depression. I felt like I’d just been shocked with a jolt of electricity. Using death to defy could not be any simpler for me.” Xiaobo is gone, and there’s nothing in the world for me now. She said: “Now, I’ve got nothing to be afraid of. in Germany, I spoke to Liu Xia at her home in Beijing. Here you can also find an audio-link with tracks of the phone call.Liao Yiwu, dissident in exile, is the author of the book "God is red: the secret story of how Christianity survived and flourished in Communist China", HarperCollins, 2011. Here we present an appeal by the writer Liao Yiwu, long-time friend of Liu Xia, in which he explains the circumstances of a phone call that he had with her. Berlin (AsiaNews / China Change) - Liu Xia, the wife of the late dissident Liu Xiaobo, is in an almost desperate situation, subjected to isolation for years without having committed any crime.
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