Chinese Dissident Possible Candidate for Nobel Peace Prize

An online petition is asking the Nobel committee to award this year's Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo. But Chinese authorities have been quick to oppose his nomination.

Liu Xiaobo is a former literature professor now serving an eleven-year prison sentence in China, for so-called "subverting state power."

Liu was imprisoned before for five years for taking part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests.

More recently Liu was one of the principal authors of Charter '08, a petition calling on the Chinese regime to improve human rights, create an independent court system and allow multi-party democracy in China.

Charter '08 was based on Charter '77, a similar petition calling for freedom in the, then communist, Czechoslovakia. One of the authors of Charter '77, Vaclav Havel wrote an open letter published in the international Herald Tribune last week calling on the Noble Committee to award Liu Xiaobo the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. A Chinese petition has also been circulating on the Internet signed by more than 300 Chinese lawyers and other professionals, supporting Liu for this year's prize.

The possibility of Liu being a candidate for the prize has been on the table for a while and the Chinese regime has been keen to oppose Liu's nomination. Norwegian media reported on Monday the director of the Nobel Institute Geir Lundestad said he had been approached by the Chinese Foreign Minister, Fu Ying, in the summer. He says Fu Ying told him awarding the peace prize to Liu would (quote) "pull the wrong strings in relations between Norway and China."

A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry claimed on Tuesday that Liu Xiaobo's activism for human rights and democracy were (quote) "opposed to the aims of the Nobel prize." The Nobel Committee told Norwegian news agency NTP "China has come with warnings before, but they have no influence on the committee's work."

The winner of this year's Noble Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on October 8th. If Liu wins, he would be the first Chinese national to receive the prize.

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[RebelsLiberator]

I havent forgotten about you Lui Xiaobo.

[usantfarm]

congratulations, Liu Xiaobo, and the free thinkers of china... keep your eyes on the prize!

[bootylicification]

President Carter got the peace prize too. You know Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize twelve days after taking office. Upon acceptance of winning it, Obama was praised by the committee, "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy". . They also gave the peace prize to Yasser Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the best known terrorist organization on the globe. This is like giving it to David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the KKK.

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Allen West 2012

[halim181276]

@MrKain2009

Fuckin american dog.

Nippon, once was THE LIGHT OF ASIA, now is THE DOG OF THE WEST.

[halim181276]

If today, a monkey or a dog in China, Russia, Cuba, Iran or Venezuela; try to destroy the country, then tomorrow this monkey or dog will receive the nobel prize.

But if a man cares about the freedom and human right of people in middle east, and tries to help women and children there, he will not receive any nobel in 200 years to come.

[halim181276]

@mildseven73

We don't hate anybody, we want peace and stability, but one thing for sure, we will never be a puppet to anybody, unlike you, doggie japs.

Niipon, once was THE LIGHT OF ASIA, now is THE DOGGIE OF THE WEST.

Wag your tail, dog...hahahaha...lmao.

[mildseven73]

@halim181276 wow I expcted that kind of answer from commy robots!XD so tell me, why you chinese commyies hate western country so much? and you think all of asians hate west so as the chinese?

[halim181276]

@mildseven73

The only asian who welcome Liu Shit Bo, is the western's dog, JAPAN. Do you know why you are a dog? See, Okinawan wanted the yankees' base to get out from their land, and Yukio Hatoyama promised them. But then even a prime minister can't move a foreign base in Nippon's land. What a shame.

Nippon, once was THE LIGHT OF ASIA, now is THE DOG OF THE WEST....

[halim181276]

@sspe26

Turns out today Poland is not doing well, and more famous as a supplier of prostitution in europe.

If China listen to this traitor Liu Shit Bo, then China will become supplier of prostitution in asia.

Look at China today, from very poor to 2.5 trillion dollar in reserve, from shit hole to sky crappers, from bicycle country to world's no.1 in car sales. What did Liu Shit Bo want to change? What could he give better to Chinese instead of talking bullshit and becoming western's puppet?

[TOLTECAAZTECA]

Fuck LIU XIAOBO is a fucking traitor