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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested after co-authoring a bold manifesto urging civil rights and political reform, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. As the submission deadline for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize closed Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, the Nobel Committee maintained its tradition of giving no hints, the contenders are kept secret for 50 years. But some nominations were announced by those who made them. Kwame Anthony Appiah, president of the PEN American Center and a Princeton philosophy professor, said in a statement that he had nominated Liu Xiaobo, a recently jailed Chinese dissident, for his "distinguished and principled leadership in the area of human and political rights and freedom of expression." (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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