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Summary Xinna said that her husband, Hada, has become very depressed in custody.
The wife of a long-imprisoned ethnic Mongolian activist in China says she has spent nearly two years in detention and house arrest on a fabricated charge to silence her family.Xinna told The Associated Press by telephone Monday that her husband, Hada, has become very depressed in custody.Hada was accused of separatism and spying in Chinas region of Inner Mongolia and has been detained for 17 years. Many ethnic Mongolians use only one name.Xinna appealed for the international community to help win Hadas release. She says she has been falsely convicted of pirating CDs and under house arrest since April.Repeated calls to police and government offices in the Inner Mongolia capital of Hohhot rang unanswered Monday.
