about the whereabouts of the prominent human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for a year, and the well-being of Liu Xia, a poet and painter who is married to Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and who has been under house arrest since her husband was awarded the prize.[Michael] Posner described the talks as "respectful in tone."
"It was not a discussion where there were voices raised, but it was a discussion that was very much based on the facts, and the facts are not good," he said.
from The Republic: US human rights talks with China yield no information about missing, detained intellectuals
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