Mr Jagland compared China's anger at the award to the outcry over peace prizes awarded to other dissidents of their times, including South African archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/nobel-chief-derides-chinas-credibility-gap-20101210-18sxr.html
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It is apparently “the first time since 1936, when Nazi Germany prevented Carl von Ossietzky from traveling to Norway to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, neither the laureate nor any of his family members will be able to attend the Nobel ceremony in Oslo”.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/12/08/the_nobel_crackdown
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