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Thorbjorn Jagland, Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman

Stephen Sackur talks to Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, about why the Committee awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo.

In a HARDtalk special from Oslo, Stephen Sackur talks to Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, about why the Committee awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to the imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.

China has stopped more than a hundred activists travelling to Oslo for the ceremony and a number of countries are boycotting it, but does the prize help human rights activists in China or has it made life for them a lot more difficult?

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