Suu Kyi 'sympathy' for Nobel winner

9 December 2010 Last updated at 08:20 ET Help Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi has offered "a hand of sympathy" to this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo from China.

Speaking in an interview with Claire Bolderson on BBC World Service Ms Suu Kyi said it was "very sad" that Liu Xiaobo will not be able to attend the award ceremony in Oslo on Friday.

Liu Xiaobo is in prison in China serving an 11 year sentence for subversion.

Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, and was unable to attend herself because she was under house arrest. She describes how she felt when she heard she had won the prize.

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