Human rights advocates top Nobel peace guesses
OSLO (AP): Human rights activists were seen as the favorites to win the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize _ including Chinese dissidents Gao Zhisheng and Hu Jia, Russia's Lidia Yusupova, Vietnam's Thich Quang Do or the group Human Rights Watch.
Even mentioning a Chinese dissident as a possible winner brought threatening growls of disapproval from Beijing, which declared Thursday that Hu, a jailed dissident, was not a legitimate contender.