Author and political activist Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu, who is known as one of China’s leading dissidents, is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for �subverting state power� after helping write a manifesto, called Charter 08, which calls for political change in China. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the story.
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