【明報專訊】LIU XIAOBO, who was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, has been granted medical parole and is receiving treatment in a hospital in Shenyang. Because of his advocacy for constitutional democracy, he was charged with "inciting subversion of state power" and subsequently sentenced to eleven years in prison. He has been behind bars for eight summers and winters. Long kept under house arrest, Liu Xia, his wife, is physically and mentally exhausted. She has all along looked forward to her husband's release. How unbearable to her the sudden grievous news has proved!