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Liu Xiaobo in prison instead of at the Nobel awards ceremony

Ladies & Gentlemen, was yesterday awarded

in Norway, the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo. But neither the winner himself, nor his family were awarded at the ceremony in Oslo the Peace Prize. The chair in the award of the prize remained empty symbolic, the speech of the winner accounted for. Liu Xiaobo had to spend his special day in prison. The wife of the winner in China is under house arrest. The medal, a diploma and prize money of € 1 million to the Nobel Foundation in the meantime be for Liu Xiaobo so long kept well until the winner of a not distant future, hopefully the price you can accept yourself.

The Chinese government sees the peace prize to the dissident civil rights as a Western crusade against the government in Beijing. Shall exercise the Chinese government also put pressure on foreign diplomats to stay away from this that the invitation to the ceremony. How much this award of the prize have taken nerve of the Chinese government had to be gauged by the fact that a regime-backed organization in China hastily picked up a "Konfutius Peace Prize" as a counter-event to Oslo from the baptism.

This process makes it clear that in Beijing, the understanding of democracy is still underdeveloped. Thus the Chinese are, however, in good company: In the U.S. democracy was trampled by President Bush, or temporarily suspended. And that in Russia uncomfortable opponents possibly be allocated just that the world has unfortunately also have to take note.

In my opinion, it was without doubt a highly political decision, that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to Chinese dissidents. We wanted to set an example and educate the government in Beijing to rethink. I am pleased with this decision and I congratulate the poor Liu very much!

also a highly political decision was to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the current U.S. president Obama. Thus, the Nobel Institute had, however, ridiculed, because Obama had the price (yet) earned in any way. This embarrassing mistake has reduced the value of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in my view. --- Peter Bröll