By NMA.TV,
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. But instead of traveling to Oslo to receive the award Liu will spend the day in jail, where he is serving eleven years on charges of “inciting subversion of state power” for his part in the writing of Charter ’08, a document that called for greater freedom of expression, human rights and free elections in China.
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Here are the countries that are siding with China on the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Liu Xiaobo:
Russia
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
Cuba
Venezuela
Morocco
Egypt
Tunisia
Sudan
Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Colombia
Vietnam
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Philippines
Serbia
. Beijing boasted Tuesday that most countries would stay away from attending the ceremony. In fact, only the 65 countries with embassies in Norway were invited, and 44 of those had accepted, according to the Nobel Prize Committee.
