Chinese Dissident Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

[VybzKartel]

By honoring someone like this guy, would you say the nobel prize is being used as a tool to destabilize governments that are deemed enemies? It takes away any meaning the nobel prize had to begin with.

Liu Xiabao As a dissident:

* Liu was prominent in the 1989 pro-democracy protests centred on Tiananmen Square that were crushed by armed troops, and was jailed for 20 months.

* In 1995, Liu orchestrated several daring petitions to parliament by groups of dissidents and intellectuals. He was held for more than seven months without formal charges.

* In December 2008, he helped to organise the "Charter 08" petition, which called for sweeping political reforms. It was published on the 60th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights