The Nobel Peace Prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, comprising five members appointed by Norway's parliament.

SHENYANG, China (AP) — China cremated the body of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died this week after a battle with liver cancer amid international criticism of Beijing for not ...

Dignitaries in Norway have honored the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize , imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, with an empty chair. The award's winner is being held in a chinese prison with ...

Liu's wife sent a formal request to China's state security ministry requesting permission for the couple and her brother to leave the country. Prominent Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu told AFP ...

China allowed the widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to be freed from house arrest and leave for Berlin on Tuesday, ending an eight-year ordeal that drove the poet into depression ...

“I was delighted, yes, but it’s only one step in the process,” Appiah said, explaining, “We’re trying to get more people to know about him and the peaceful things that he’s doing. These are all part ...

In 2010, human rights activist Liu Xiaobo became the first Chinese dissident ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Jailed at the time of his award, he delivered his speech in absentia. “I have no enemies ...

The First Hospital of China Medical University in the northeastern city of Shenyang said Liu's family declined to have him... Chinas cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo suffered respiratory ...