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Reuters: Jailed Chinese Dissident Liu Wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Tags: China, Human rights, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize

Jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for decades of non-violent struggle for human rights, infuriating China, which called the award "an obscenity."

The prize puts China's human rights record in the spotlight at a time when it is starting to play a bigger role on the global stage as a result of its growing economic might.

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