The Norwegian Nobel Committee's 2010 award-ceremony speech paired Ossietzky and Sakharov as precedents, seven years before its 2017 Liu Xiaobo statement

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee's Presentation Speech at the 10 December 2010 ceremony awarding Liu Xiaobo the Peace Prize — delivered by Chairman Thorbjørn Jagland while Liu was alive and imprisoned — narrates two precedents back-to-back: "There was a great deal of trouble in 1935, when the Committee gave the award to Carl von Ossietzky. Hitler was furious, and prohibited all Germans from accepting any Nobel Prize. King Haakon did not attend the ceremony. Ossietzky did not come to Oslo, and died a little over a year later." It continues immediately: "There was considerable outrage in Moscow when Andrej Sakharov received his Prize in 1975. He, too, was prevented from receiving the award in person." Lech Wałęsa (1983) and Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) follow in the same lineage of laureates whose own states reacted with fury to the award.

This is a separate Tier-1 Committee document from the 2017 death statement that later named the same pairing in the "heritage" sentence — a different chairman, a different occasion, seven years earlier, at the very ceremony honoring Liu Xiaobo himself. The 2017 sentence is not an obituary-writer's invention; the Committee had already narrated Ossietzky and Andrei Sakharov together, in adjoining sentences, before Liu's death.