The world’s top most prestigious award Nobel Prize especially in the peace has awarded to world’s three great personalities when they were in the prison.

The three laureates were in prison when they received the award, all of them winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Let’s meet the three noble laureates who bagged the prize:

German Journalist Carl von Ossietzky

Ossietzky was a German journalist who had exposed a clandestine German re-armament. He was convicted of high treason and espionage in 1931 after publishing details of Germany's violation of the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding an air force, the predecessor of the Luftwaffe, and training pilots in the Soviet Union.

In 1921, the German government founded the Arbeits-Kommandos (work squads) led by Major Bruno Ernst Buchrucker. Officially a labor group intended to assist with civilian projects, in reality they were used by Germany to exceed the limits on troop strength set by the Treaty of Versailles.

Ossietzky's international rise to fame began in 1936 when, already suffering from serious tuberculosis, he was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi is the Myanmar politician who led the National League for Democracy (NLD) to a majority win in Myanmar's first openly contested election in 25 years in November 2015.

Although the Myanmar constitution forbids her from becoming president because she has children who are foreign nationals, Suu Kyi is widely seen as de facto leader.

Suu Kyi spent much of her time between 1989 and 2010 in some form of detention because of her efforts to bring democracy to then military-ruled Myanmar a fact that made her an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.

In 1991, Suu Kyi as she's known, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the committee chairman called her "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless". She was in prison when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo the renegade Chinese intellectual who kept vigil at Tianamen Sqaure in 1989 to protect protesters from encroaching soldiers, promoted a pro-democracy charter that brought him a lengthy prison sentence. He was the first Chinese who was awarded Nobel Peace Prize when he was serving his sentence in jail.

He was the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to die in state custody since Carl von Ossietzky, the German pacifist and foe of Nazism who won the prize in 1935 and died under under guard in 1938 after years of maltreatment.