China Outraged Over Nobel Peace Prize Selection

China has lashed out at the Nobel Peace Prize committee after it awarded this year's prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who has long called for political reform in the country.

The Chinese government's reaction was swift and unequivocal. A statement on the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website called the award "an obscenity" that goes against the aims of the award. It warned the award also will hurt China's relations with Norway, the country where the Nobel Committee is based.

The Chinese government's dismay had been expressed in recent days, in less harsh language, by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.

Pro-democracy protesters raise pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo with Chinese words reading: ‘Release Liu Xiaobo’ during a demonstration outside the China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong, 08 Oct. 2010

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Yes,

A man who only ever wanted peace and equality for everyone is in jail in China.

And that man, who led the protest in Tiananmen Square, is in jail.

And he does not even know he won.

Shame on you, China. This man wanted equality for all and you don't.

If NZ keeps on trading with China, they will hear my views. Over and over.

Jailed Chinese dissident wins Nobel Peace Prize

Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, sparking a furious backlash from Beijing and renewed Western calls for his immediate release. The 54-year-old writer and university professor was honoured "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China," Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in his announcement. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace," he added. Liu was sentenced last December to 11 years behind bars for subversion, following the 2008 release of "Charter 08", a manifesto for reform signed by more than 300 Chinese intellectuals, academics and writers. He is one of only three people to win the Peace Prize while in prison, after 1991 laureate Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar and German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who was in a Nazi jail when he won in 1935. Following Friday's announcement, US President Barack Obama, the 2009 Peace laureate, called for Liu's release, as did a number of European governments and human rights groups.

China's Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize

The first citizen of the People's Republic of China to win a Nobel prize was awarded the honor Friday for advocating greater freedom in his country. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement that Liu Xiaobo - a prickly, chain-smoking dissident of moderate views - deserved the Nobel Peace Prize because of "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." Liu, 54, who is nearing the end of the first year of an 11-year prison sentence for subversion, becomes only the second person to win the peace prize while incarcerated, following German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who won it in 1935 while jailed by the Nazis.

Mr. Liu Xiaobo gratefully deserves the Nobel Peace Prize in my opinion, because of his nonviolent activism for democracy following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, and has been imprisoned four times by the fascist state. His awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize surely invigorates the true name of the Peace Prize.