Only one Chinese activist RSVPs for Nobel Prize ceremony

Posted By Joshua Keating Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 2:03 PM Share

Of the 140 Chinese activists and dissidents invited by Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to attend next month's cerermony in Oslo, it appears that only one is planning to attend, and he's not even in China:

Wan Yanhai, who fled to the United States in May after increasing official harassment of his AIDS advocacy group, is the only person on that list to confirm his attendance.

"I heard many people on the list were put on a blacklist and were not allowed, or their family members not even allowed, to leave China. It's a horrible situation," Yanhai told AP by phone from Philadelphia, where he lives.

"It could be like I become the only person from that list who will be there," Wan said. "That will be interesting."

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3:51 AM ET

November 25, 2010

The reason he can attend..

The reason he can attend the ceremony is because he is not in China.

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