Originally posted by the Voice of America. Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America, a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in the public domain. Rights Group: Wife of Chinese Nobel Winner Detained VOA News 10 October 2010 Liu Xia, wife of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo (file photo) Photo: AP Liu Xia, wife of imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who on 8 Oct won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating non-violence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland (file photo). A U.S.-based rights organization says Chinese authorities are detaining the wife of jailed dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, after she briefly visited her husband in prison. The organization Freedom Now says Liu Xia is not being allowed to leave her Beijing apartment, and friends and media are being kept from entering. She also is not being allowed to use her mobile phone. Liu Xia was allowed to see her husband Sunday afternoon inside the prison in Jin Zhou City, where he is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion. Chinese authorities have kept her in detention since that meeting. Freedom Now says Liu Xiaobo cried when his wife told him he had won the Nobel Prize, and he said he dedicated the award to all those who died in the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Liu participated in those protests. When the Nobel award was announced last week, Chinese authorities called it "a blasphemy to the peace prize." Authorities later detained supporters of Liu who gathered in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities to celebrate his prestigious award. China's government, which calls Liu a criminal, continues to censor news of his award. The 54-year-old Liu was arrested in December 2008, two days before his Charter 08 call for democratic reforms in China was published. He was sentenced last December 25 to the prison term for "inciting subversion of state power." Overseas, human rights activists and world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, have praised Liu - and the Nobel Prize committee in Norway for giving Liu the award. Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP. .