China's leadership looks powerless to Oslo: The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 is awarded to the imprisoned civil rights Liu Xiaobo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 54-year-olds for "his long and violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" from.
The reaction of the Chinese government fell sharply from: The 54-year-old was "a criminal", because the law-breaking been sentenced by Chinese judicial organs was. Because of the Nobel Peace Prize, the government in Beijing charged her relationship with Norway. World was the decision of the Nobel committee with much approval. Germany and France demanded the release of Liu.
China's State Security on Friday prevented any contact with Liu Xia, wife Xiaobo. Police forces denied journalists access to the apartment complex in Beijing, where she lives, witnesses said on site. This spring, Liu Xiaobo was from Beijing have been moved to the far distant Jinzhou Prison in northeast China's Liaoning Province. The State Security had his wife on the eve of the award asked to leave Beijing, but she refused.
The Norwegian committee chief Thorbjørn Jagland confirmed that Chinese diplomats have put pressure not to award the world famous prize to Liu Xiaobo. Even before there had been intense speculation about this year's award winners. And ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl was traded as a favorite. Thorbjørn Jagland had shortly before the announcement further increased the tension by announcing a very controversial decision. The choice of the committee will be similar controversy about how the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama last year.
The imprisoned Chinese civil rights activist is also honorary chairman of the PEN Club of independent Chinese writer. The 54-year-old dissident is one of the masterminds behind the "Charter 08", the appeal for democracy and human rights in China. The manifesto was in December 2008 on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of the United Nations published and finds himself in the tradition of the Charter 77 of the former Czechoslovak dissidents.
Traditionally, the Nobel selection committee awards the prize in the categories of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. Since 1968, a business award.
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