Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Dissident Liu Xiaobo

Despite China Threats, 

By AUSTIN RAMZY / BEIJING Friday, Oct. 08, 2010

Chinese dissident and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo

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  In a sharp rebuke to Beijing, the Nobel Committee named imprisoned Chinese scholar Liu Xiaobo the 2010 Peace Prize winner for "his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." The decision by the five-member committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament comes over the objection of the Chinese government, which considers Liu a criminal.

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