Beijing, China (CNN) -- Liu Xia, the wife of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, has left Beijing to go to Jinzhou, where her husband is imprisoned, the couple's lawyer told CNN on Saturday.
Liu's wife said Friday she had been packing under the surveillance of police officers, who promised to take her to visit her husband Saturday. She said she could not wait to see him to tell him he is this year's peace laureate.
Liu Xiaobo won the prize Friday, but news of the win has been blacked out in China, with no mention of it on Chinese media. The same censorship applies to Chinese blogs and micro-blogging sites like Twitter, and authorities have blocked the Nobel Peace Prize section of the official Nobel website.
At least two international television networks -- CNN and BBC -- were blacked out as the Nobel committee announced the winner on Friday, and CNN remained blacked out for most of the day.
Liu was sentenced in 2009 to 11 years in prison for inciting subversion of state power. He is the co-author of Charter 08, a call for political reform and human rights, and was an adviser to the student protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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