Great Regulars: An empty seat marks the absence

of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner languishing in a Chinese prison.

The 2010 Nobel Prize for Peace was formally awarded to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in Oslo's city hall on Friday amid strong opposition from Beijing, with the absent dissident's medal and diploma placed ceremonially in an empty chair where he would have sat.

from Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Nobel Honor for Absent Liu
then Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: China Steps Up Nobel Pressure
then Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Beijing Crackdown Widens

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