Liu Xiaobo's wife was kept under house arrest and nearly incommunicado for eight years, without ever being charged, on account of being married to Nobel-prize winning dissident.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/10/liu-xia...

It take's a rather famous case to make it into the Western news, but I have a close Chinese-national friend who's under the strong impression that dissident activity would be bad for her parents.