Empty chair to mark Nobel winner's absence

An empty chair will represent jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo at next Friday's awards ceremony and symbolize China's policies to isolate and repress dissidents. The gesture comes amid heightened rhetoric from Beijing, which has pressured international diplomats to boycott the ceremony and denounced the Norwegian Nobel Committee for giving one of the world's top accolades to Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year sentence for political activism.