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Record 241 Nominations Made for Nobel Peace Prize
By not in system - AOL NewsOSLO, Norway -- A record 241 nominations were submitted for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Norwegian jury has now begun the secretive process to select a winner, the panel's spokesman said Tuesday. Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina, secret-spilling organization WikiLeaks and Cuban dissidents are among the candidates who have been publicly announced by those who nominated them. The Norwegian Nobel Committee does not reveal the names of nominees and doesn't discuss any candidates until the winner is announced in October. Geir Lundestad, the permanent secretary of the ...
POLL: Should WikiLeaks Get the Nobel Peace Prize?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsHeroes or villains? The whistle-blower group WikiLeaks has been officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. A 26-year-old Norwegian lawmaker says that Julian Assange's outfit has provided an invaluable service to the world for exposing "corruption, war crimes and torture," The Washington Post reported. Given that much of the anti-government domino effect occurring in the Middle East and Africa can be traced to WikiLeaks' release of U.S. State Department cables, there's no denying that the group has made an impact. While WikiLeaks is viewed in somewhat favorable terms by many Europeans, ...
Nancy Pelosi: Free Liu Xiaobo
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 ...
After Nobel, China Snubs Norway, but Not Norwegian Oil
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Dec. 13) -- After the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Beijing cracked down on human rights activists at home and lashed out at Norway and the West in general as "clowns" conspiring in "an anti-China farce." China suspended trade talks with Norway, canceled high-level meetings between the two countries and persuaded a score of other nations to boycott the Nobel ceremony. Odd Andersen, AFP / Getty Images Members of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, from left, Thorbjoern Jagland, Kaci Kullmann Five and Sissel Marie Roenbeck ...
Liu Xiaobo, in Absentia, Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyChinese dissident Liu Xiaobo -- or rather, the chair he would have sat in -- received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Friday. With Liu imprisoned by authorities in his homeland and his wife under house arrest, the Nobel medal and diploma were ceremoniously placed on an empty chair on the stage -- the first time such a gesture has been made since 1935, when Hitler refused to let the winner attend, the New York Times reports. Noting Liu's absence, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, told those in attendance: "This fact alone shows that the award was necessary and ...
Nobel Yields Protests and a Single Empty Chair
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- Pro-democracy rallies from Hong Kong to Scandinavia, Chinese media censors clamping down on news of the country's most famous prisoner, and a single empty chair in Oslo -- all iconic images from today's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway. It's the first time since 1935 that the award hasn't been handed to the recipient or a colleague. A single empty chair is Liu Xiaobo's representative at today's pageant at Oslo's city hall, which is being boycotted by China and 17 other countries. At the last minute, Serbia decided to send a delegate. At today's ceremony, Nobel chief ...
Nobel Peace Ceremony Goes Ahead, With Empty Chair
By not in system - AOL NewsOSLO, 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 ...
Opinion: How About a Nobel Prize for Assange?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Dec. 10) -- "[T]he Nobel Committee has chosen someone who has been an eloquent and courageous spokesman for the advance of universal values through peaceful and nonviolent means, including his support for democracy, human rights and the rule of law." -- statement by President Barack Obama on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. There is now another imprisoned "courageous spokesman for the advance of universal values through peaceful and nonviolent means" whom the Nobel Committee should be considering for next year's award: Julian ...
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
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(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 ...
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