Security guards and plainclothes police stand guard at the entrance of Xihe funeral parlor and cemetary in Shenyang where Liu Xiaobo's body was believed to have been taken.-AFP
Shenyang (China) (AFP) - A group of plainclothes officers appeared like ghosts from behind tombstones next to the crematorium where the body of China's most prominent dissident was rumoured to have been taken after his death.
It was a lot of security for a place that may not even have held Liu Xiaobo's body, offering a reminder of the government's determination to make sure that reporters remained far away from the Nobel laureate and his family -- even in death.
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