The Norwegian Nobel Institute has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident. Mr. Liu has won the award for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.”
The 54 year old is serving an 11 year long term on subversion charges 300 miles from Beijing. Two other Nobel laureates have received the prize while they were incarcerated by their own goverments, Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi and German Carl von Ossietzky, in 1991 and 1935 respectively.
A high-ranking Chinese official warned the Norwegian committee that giving the prize to Mr. Liu would negatively affect relations between the two countries.
Headlines as to Mr. Liu's award were not found in China, and many luxury compounds and hotels were blacked out throughout the evening.
Mr. Liu still does not know that he has won the award and neither the media nor his family has been able to meet him.
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