The wife of jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo has been placed under house arrest in Beijing just days after her husband won the Nobel Peace Prize. The group Human Rights in China says Liu Xia is being barred from contacting media and friends and has been told she may only leave her home when escorted in a police car. She was placed under house arrest just after she was allowed to visit her husband in jail. Following the visit, she told friends that Liu Xiaobo had dedicated the Nobel award to “all the lost souls” of the 1989 Tiananmen protests. Meanwhile, a group of seventeen pro-democracy activists were reportedly detained in Beijing on Friday as they arrived at a restaurant to celebrate Liu’s award.