This year's Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo can't attend the ceremonies to receive his award because he is in jail in China.
The only other time (this has happened) was when German journalist and pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who was locked up in a Nazi concentration camp, could not travel to Oslo for his prize ceremony in 1936.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/nobel-peace-ceremony-to-hail-liu-amid-china-fury-20101210-18t0o.html
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