Nobel peace laureates who did not pick up their prize

She had been in prison since 2021 but was released in December 2024 for a limited period on medical leave...

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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado joins a list of Nobel Peace laureates unable to personally accept their awards. This highlights a recurring theme of recipients facing state oppression or other circumstances preventing their attendance at the Oslo ceremony.

Several Nobel Peace Prize winners, including Narges Mohammadi (2023), Ales Bialiatski (2022), and Liu Xiaobo (2010), were imprisoned or under house arrest at the time of their awards.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) and Lech Walesa (1983) were represented by family members due to fears of not being allowed to return to their home countries.
The 1973 prize saw Le Duc Tho decline his award and Henry Kissinger not attend, while Carl von Ossietzky (1935) received his prize while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.

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