China's best-known dissident, who is serving 11 years in prison, is probably unaware he has won prize
China's best-known dissident today won the prestigious Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power.
The Norwegian Nobel committee praised Liu Xiaobo for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The ... committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace."
As the news was announced, transmission of both BBC news and CNN television channels was interrupted in China.
Nobel laureate's wife forced to leave Beijing
IANS, Oct 9, 2010, 11.19am IST
BEIJING: Chinese police have forced the wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to leave Beijing and are believed to have taken her to the northeastern city of Jinzhou, where her husband is imprisoned, reports said on Saturday.
"(The police) are sitting there waiting for me to get my things together," US-based Radio Free Asia quoted Liu's wife, Liu Xia, as saying late on Friday.
Liu Xia told the broadcaster that the police said they planned to take her to Jinzhou but she was worried that she could be held under house arrest at another place outside Beijing.
"They said I could see him (Liu Xiaobo) tomorrow," Liu Xia was quoted as saying.
Read more: Nobel laureate's wife forced to leave Beijing - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6718007.cms?prtpage=1#ixzz11u9UtFAO
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