Now here is a slap in the face for the USA. The Americans have accused Edward Snowden, the so-called leaker, of everything under the sun starting with treason. The Europeans have a different slant on things. They want to award him a Human Rights prize.
"NSA leaker Edward Snowden joined three imprisoned Belarusian dissidents and Malala Yousafzai (pictured), the young Pakistani shot by the Taliban for supporting education for girls, on the short list Monday for the EU's Sakharov human rights prize.
By News Wires (text)
Three jailed Belarusian dissidents, US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and Pakistani girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai were shortlisted Monday for the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.
The three Belarusians, Ales Bialatski, Eduard Lobau and Mykola Statkevich, were jailed after mass protests in Minsk in December 2010 against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
They were backed for the prize, to be announced October 10 and officially November 20, by some 40 EU centre-right and conservative lawmakers."
France 24 reports here, in full.
"NSA leaker Edward Snowden joined three imprisoned Belarusian dissidents and Malala Yousafzai (pictured), the young Pakistani shot by the Taliban for supporting education for girls, on the short list Monday for the EU's Sakharov human rights prize.
By News Wires (text)
Three jailed Belarusian dissidents, US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and Pakistani girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai were shortlisted Monday for the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.
The three Belarusians, Ales Bialatski, Eduard Lobau and Mykola Statkevich, were jailed after mass protests in Minsk in December 2010 against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
They were backed for the prize, to be announced October 10 and officially November 20, by some 40 EU centre-right and conservative lawmakers."
France 24 reports here, in full.
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