China anger at 'farce' of Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize- BBC NEWS

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Nobel chairman Thorbjorn Jagland presents the prize Courtesy: Nobelprize.org

China has said the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is a "political farce".

China's foreign ministry said the move by the prize committee in Oslo "does not represent the wish of the majority of the people in the world".
There were standing ovations at the ceremony in Norway for Mr Liu, who was represented only by an empty chair.

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The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, next to the empty chair where Liu Xiaobo would have sat.

BY SARAH LYALL

Published: December 10, 2010

OSLO — Imprisoned and incommunicado in China, the Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, his absence marked at the prize ceremony here by an empty chair.