Nobel speech censored by Chinese television

The Nobel Foundation has terminated a contract with TV 4 after it has emerged that its chairman's speech was censored by Chinese television.

The Nobel Foundation chairman, Marcus Storch, held a speech at the Nobel dinner in December 2007 addressing freedom of the press and freedom of speech. The Chinese television company that bought the rights to the broadcast from TV 4 censored the speech.

According to a press release on Friday the Nobel Foundation only received information about the censorship of the broadcast in April.