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Article: Nobel peace prize rebuke possible for China
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- September 24, 2008
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The annual guessing game about who will get the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize focused this year on a possible human rights rebuke for China.
Experts said the coveted prize could also be used to chastise Russia or Vietnam when it is announced Oct. 10.
"I think there is a big chance for it be a human rights prize," said peace researcher Stein Toennesson, who sent out his list of possible winners Wednesday.
He thought the prize could go to Chinese activist Hu Jia, possibly together with his wife Zeng Jinyan, and if not, then to Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Do or to Russian human rights lawyer Lidia Yusupova.
The secretive five-member Nobel Peace Prize committee ...