Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's chair sits empty at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony today in Norway. Committee secretary Geir Lundestad (left) said, "We regret that the laureate is not present. He is in isolation in a prison in northeastern China."
Chinese officials are fuming over Friday's Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony because they really don't like the winner, jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. Police have arrested many of Liu's supporters, and today the Foreign Ministry called them anti-Chinese "clowns." How mature.
The wife of imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo says the prison has started serving him individually prepared meals, rather than the notoriously gross general population food. How nice of them! Now maybe they could just set him free?
A supporter of Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was arrested in Hong Kong after spraying a Chinese government official with champagne yesterday. Protesters ate salmon and drank champagne in solidarity with the Norway-based Nobel committee. Sounds like a good time!
Liu Xia, wife of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, told her husband of his award, and he cried and said, "This is for the martyrs of Tiananmen Square." Shortly after leaving, Liu Xia was detained.
Prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for "inciting the subversion of state power," was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for his work toward nonviolent political change in China. [NYT]
