Nobel Awarded to Jailed Chinese Human Rights Activist Liu Xiaobo

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The jailed Chinese human rights activist and writer Liu Xiaobo has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison last year after spearheading a petition calling for freedom of assembly, expression and religion in China. For the first time since the 1930s, a representative of the winner is not on hand to collect the award.

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[Mike10four]

It is time for those in power throughout the world to understand “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” are part of the Laws of Nature transcending any civil- or natural-law and they apply, not only to humans, but to all life and social systems. See: youtube.com/watch?v=tdNYVZQYJq­I

[pakjai]

Julian Assange? Hello freedom?

[diekonditorei]

@WavesOfTrolls well, try spending 11 years in a Chinese prison with your dog first and you probably will be awarded the prize. I may be an idiot, but at least I am proud of Liu Xiaobo and the Peace Prize.

[WavesOfTrolls]

@diekonditorei sarcasmaticus nocomprendirus idioticus

[diekonditorei]

@WavesOfTrolls of course a fuckwit like you could do anything to satisfy your pathetic ego. Why didn't you?

[WavesOfTrolls]

i should have won it for letting my dog pee on the pole of a chinese flag accidentally.