During the Tibetan unrest of 2008 , Woeser and her husband were put under house arrest after speaking to reporters . In December 2008 Woeser and her husband were among the first of the original 303 signatories to Charter 08 , now joined by thousands more . Liu Xiaobo , the author of Charter 08 , was sentenced for eleven years of prison and awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize . In July 2009 Woeser and her husband were one of more than 100 signatories to a petition asking Chinese authorities to released detained ethnic-Uyghur professor of economics Ilham Tohti . When she was honoured with the Prince Claus Awards in 2011 , she was forbidden to receive the prize in the Dutch embassy
2010 Nobel Peace Prize
2010 Nobel Peace Prize
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