Empty chair at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing to find out whether people in China were able to follow today’s proceedings in Oslo, where the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. His absence was marked symbolically by an empty chair.
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