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Chinese
activist Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize
Friday, October 08, 2010 05:29:35 PM,
DPA
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Oslo:
Jailed Chinese dissident and writer Liu Xiaobo has been awarded
this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee
announced in Oslo Friday.
Liu was unanimously chosen for his long-standing struggle for
human rights in China, Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said.
The committee, he added, believes "there is a close connection
between human rights and peace".
Liu authored Charter 08, a political manifesto similar to the
Charter 77 of one-time Czech dissidents.
He is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for inciting
subversion of state power in China.
The Chinese government was "in breach" of several international
conventions and its own constitution including freedom of speech
and freedom of assembly, Jagland told journalists in Oslo.
Liu's nomination was endorsed by, among others, Nobel peace
laureates Desmond Tutu, South Africa's former Anglican archbishop,
and the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet.
The prize - worth 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) - is due to be
presented in Oslo Dec 10.
The Nobel Committee considered a record 237 nominations for the
2010 prize.
Last year, US President Barack Obama was a surprise selection,
winning the peace prize for "extraordinary efforts" in
strengthening international diplomacy.
The peace prize is the fifth of the 2010 Nobel prizes to be
awarded. The prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and
literature were announced earlier in the week.
The prestigious prizes were endowed by Swedish industrialist
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
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