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| Subject: Edward Snowden nominated for EU rights prize Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:01 pm | |
| Green and left-wing lawmakers have nominated US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden for the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.
Snowden, who has sought asylum in Russia, "deserves to be honoured for shedding light on the systematic infringements of civil liberties by US and European secret services," leaders of the parliament's Greens group Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Rebecca Harms said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Snowden has risked his freedom to help us protect ours," they added.
The European United Left/Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament also nominated Snowden for the 2013 prize, saying "whistleblowers cannot be treated like criminals, they must have our protection."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/edward-snowden-nominated-for-eu-rights-prize-20130912-2tl65.html#ixzz2edjEzw1E |
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