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By not in system - AOL NewsOn the stage before us was an empty chair. Blue and white, it has been filled by great champions of peace and justice, nonviolence and human rights: Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Mother Teresa and Elie Wiesel; His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. But, on this day, the chair was empty. It should have been filled by Liu Xiaobo, activist and advocate for the rights of Chinese citizens, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his courage and strength in speaking out for human rights and democracy. Instead, this remarkable leader is in prison, serving an 11-year ...
Nobel Peace Ceremony Goes Ahead, With Empty Chair
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OSLO, Norway (Dec. 10) - When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo's modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be one chair left empty - for this year's winner. Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, a democracy activist, is serving an 11-year prison sentence in China on subversion charges brought after he co-authored a bold call for sweeping changes to Beijing's one-party communist political system. Chinese authorities have placed Liu's supporters, including his wife Liu Xia, under house arrest to prevent anyone from picking up his prize. Odd ...
China Awards Own Peace Prize Before Nobel Boycott
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Dec. 9) -- China awarded its own peace prize today to a Taiwanese politician who couldn't attend the event, just a day before it boycotts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo where winner Liu Xiaobo will be absent because he's stuck behind bars in China. The first-ever Confucius Peace Prize was bestowed on Lien Chan, Taiwan's former vice president, whom organizers said could not attend the awards event in Beijing for "reasons known to everyone." They did not elaborate. A 6-year-old local girl accepted the award on his behalf. Liu Jin, AFP / Getty Images Six-year-old Zeng Yuhan holds the ...
China, 18 Other Countries to Skip Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
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(Dec. 7) -- Nineteen countries, including China, have declined to attend Friday's ceremony honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned Chinese dissident, Nobel officials said. The Norwegian prize committee said the 19 embassies declined to attend to ceremony in Oslo, Norway, "for various reasons." Some 44 embassies have accepted, and two have not replied. Liu, 54, won the prize after working for 20 years for peaceful political change and human rights in China. He helped write a call for changes to China's one-party system, known as Charter 08. Liu, a literature professor, is ...
China Takes Steps to Derail Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Nov. 19) -- China was enraged when the Norwegian Nobel Committee selected jailed pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo as this year's Peace Prize winner. Now the People's Republic has taken its revenge by effectively blocking the committee from handing out the prestigious award for the first time in 109 years. According to Nobel rules, the $1.4 million prize can only be handed to the laureate or a close family member. Liu won't be able to make next month's ceremony in Oslo, Norway, as his calls for China to reform the one-party system earned him an 11-year prison sentence in December. His wife, ...
Norway Arrests 3 Suspects in al-Qaida Conspiracy
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(July 8) -- Police in Norway today arrested three men on suspicion of having links to an international al-Qaida conspiracy that was plotting attacks in the U.S., Britain and Norway. The men had been under surveillance for over a year, Der Spiegel said. Two were arrested in Oslo; the other was arrested after being detained on a visit to Germany. Norwegian authorities suspect the trio of plotting a major attack similar to the planned strike against the New York City subway that was foiled last year. The suspects represent "one node" in a larger terrorist network that includes operatives in ...
George Mitchell Lays Groundwork as Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Talks
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyIf there were no conflict, Ramallah and Jerusalem would be considered neighboring towns. By car, they lie only 16 miles apart; even fewer as the crow flies. The distance might as well be an ocean. Former Sen. George Mitchell must be tired. He's swum this ocean's length already, dozens of times. Over the last weeks Mitchell, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, a diplomat decorated for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process, has shuttled back and forth between Jerusalem and Ramallah, working to lay the groundwork allowing mediated talks to begin between Israeli Prime ...
Obama in Oslo -- Half Dove and Half Hawk
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLong after Barack Obama leaves the White House, his presidency will be judged, in part, by the standards he set for himself with his Nobel Prize address in Oslo. ...
What Should Obama Say in His Nobel Speech?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsOn Dec. 10, President Barack Obama will be in Oslo, Norway, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. His highly anticipated acceptance speech comes just days after he announced his decision to sent 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. So, what should the president say? Just as there are varied opinions as to whether Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, there is no shortage of advice on what the president should say to his audience in Oslo and across the globe. At Mediaite, Rachel Sklar says she believes the president should shift the focus away from himself and even suggests the wording he ...
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