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Former Nobel chairman stands by Liu award after China criticism
The prominent democracy advocate died aged 61 in China on Thursday while still in custody following a battle with cancer.
(AFP) The former chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee justified on Friday awarding Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo with the 2010 peace prize which Beijing slammed as "blasphemy".
"The struggle for Human Rights is peace building," Thorbjorn Jagland, who is still a member of the Nobel committee, said on Twitter.
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