The Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland speaks next to the picture of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, December 10, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said it will not change its position on opposing the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to people it considers criminals, even though Beijing and Norway had now normalised ties frozen since 2010 when a prominent Chinese dissident won.
Liu Xiaobo, 59, was jailed by a Chinese court for 11 years in 2009 on subversion charges for organising a petition urging an end to one-party rule. He remains in prison.
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