June 10, 2013 12:39 am | Updated 12:39 am IST - Beijing
A relative comforts Liu Xia, left, wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, while she cries outside Huairou Detention Centre where her brother Liu Hui has been jailed in Huairou district, on the outskirts of Beijing on Sunday.
The brother-in-law of 2010 Nobel peace laureate >Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud on Sunday, but his family and activists alleged official retribution.
Liu Hui, whose sister is the wife of the jailed dissident, was convicted by a court in northeastern China of embezzling money as manager of a real estate firm.
His lawyer and supporters argued that the case should have been tried in a civil rather than criminal court.
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