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Liu Xia, widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, is allowed to leave Beijing, China, for Berlin, Germany.
2018-07-10

Prominent Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo dies.
2017-07-13

Chinese political activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is released from prison on medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.
2017-06-26

A ceremony is held in Norway to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo "in absentia".
2010-12-10

The Nobel Committee says the Nobel Peace Prize for Liu Xiaobo may not be handed out this year as China will not allow anyone from his family to attend the event.
2010-11-18

The Chinese government prevents the lawyer for Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo from going to London to speak at a conference organised by the International Bar Association.
2010-11-9

The Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan calls on China to release Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
2010-10-14

20 people are reported arrested in China over imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo's 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award. Liu's wife's whereabouts remain unknown after she was taken away by police with human rights group Freedom Now claiming she is in de facto house arrest.
2010-10-10

Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. China blocks internet coverage of the award.
2010-10-8

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu remarks in a press release that the Nobel Peace Prize has been "desecrated" and this event could damage ties between the countries.
2010-10-8