Snowden Nominated For Freedom of Thought Prize

First time accepted submitter DigitalKhaos23 writes "Snowden is a candidate for the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, which honors people or organizations for their work in the defense of human rights and freedom of thought. The article adds: 'Edward Snowden risked his life to confirm what we had long suspected regarding mass online surveillance, a major scandal of our times. He revealed details of violations of EU data protection law and fundamental rights.'"

Comments

Why not?

[gelfling]

After all Sudan's President Omar al Bashir is an indicted war criminal and genocidist and the UN ferries him all over Africa to peace conferences by luxury jet in order, quote 'to ensure his safety' unquote.

Snowden? give the prize to Putin himself. He's only murders journalists he doesn't jail them.

Putin/Snowden 2016 The REAL Liberal alternative.

bleh

[The-Ixian]

Snowden is getting exactly what he wanted, notoriety and fame. He has found a way to elevate himself to celebrity status which he will ride for as long as he can.
 
As soon as the public eye starts moving away, I expect some kind of book deal or other, possibly drastic, effort to regain the spotlight.