Who among the following was the first Chinese Citizen to win Nobel Peace Prize?

Correct option is D

The correct answer is (d) Liu Xiaobo.

Liu Xiaobo was the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. He was a human rights activist, writer, and professor who played a key role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and co-authored Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political reforms in China.

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• Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, while he was imprisoned in China.
• He was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power".
• The Chinese government strongly opposed his Nobel Prize and placed his wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest.
• He passed away in 2017 due to liver cancer, making him the second Nobel Peace Prize laureate to die in custody (after Carl von Ossietzky in Nazi Germany).

Additional Knowledge

• Yu Jie: A Chinese dissident writer, known for his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and support for democracy and human rights.
• Liu Xia: A Chinese poet and artist, also the wife of Liu Xiaobo, who was placed under house arrest for years after her husband won the Nobel Prize.
• Wang Dan: A key student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, later exiled and became a democracy activist in the United States.