Name the jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist who won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his 'long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.'
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- Went Xiabo
- Wen Jiabao
- Liu Jiabao
- Liu Xiaobo
The Correct Option is D
Solution and Explanation
The correct answer is Liu Xiaobo. He was a Chinese literary critic, writer and human rights activist who was serving an eleven year prison sentence in China when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded him the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. The citation praised his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. He had been jailed for co-authoring Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political reform and greater civil liberties, and was convicted of inciting subversion of state power.
Liu Xiaobo was the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to receive the honour while in prison since the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935. The Chinese government barred him and his family from attending the ceremony in Oslo, so his seat was left empty during the award presentation.
The other options are distractors built from similar sounding names. Went Xiabo and Liu Jiabao are not real people, they are name mix ups meant to confuse. Wen Jiabao was the Premier of China at that time, a government official and not the jailed activist being described.
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