China stands firm as pressure grows to release late Nobel laureate’s wife

Liu Xia has been detained at home since Liu Xiaobo won the peace prize in 2010

• Clifford Coonan in Beijing
• The Irish Times

International pressure is growing to allow Liu Xia, the wife of the late Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo, to leave the country if she wants to go abroad.

She has been under house arrest for years.

Diplomatic sources in Beijing say intensive discussions are under way with Chinese authorities to grant permission to allow Ms Xia, a photographer and poet, to leave the…

• China stands firm…