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Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Formally Arrested

Jane MacCartney for the Times Online: China’s most prominent dissident has been formally arrested after more than six months in detention at a secret location near Beijing on charges that could bring a lengthy prison term. Liu Xiaobo had been held virtually incommunicado under “residential surveillance”, allowed only two visits from his wife, since he was taken from his Beijing home on December 8 –