This Friday, the Nobel committee would award Chinese peace activist Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Award for Peace in absentia. Mr Liu is currently serving an 11 year sentence for “subverting the state power” in China. The Chinese state reacted violently against the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award Liu the prize calling it “a complete violation of the principles of the prize and an insult to the peace prize”. South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, himself a Nobel laureate, recently expressed his indignation at the Chinese state’s decision to refuse Liu Xiaobo bail and to allow him to travel to Oslo. He argued that: “”Though he is just one of 1.3 billion, the story of this year’s Nobel peace prize laureate, Dr Liu Xiaobo, is sadly emblematic of the Chinese government’s intolerance to individual expression.” Read whole story here.