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The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has awarded Liu Xiaobo the 2010 Peace Prize for his "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/xiaobo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo
He certainly seems worth of the prize.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/xiaobo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo
He has been detained, arrested, and sentenced repeatedly for his peaceful political activities, including participation in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
He certainly seems worth of the prize.