Snowden Shortlisted For Europe's Top Human Rights Award

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 1, 2013 @08:48AM from the i'm-guessing-the-us-government-won't-give-him-an-award dept.

another random user sends this news from the BBC: "Edward Snowden, the fugitive American former intelligence worker, has made the shortlist of three for the Sakharov prize, Europe's top human rights award. Mr Snowden was nominated by Green politicians in the European Parliament for leaking details of U.S. surveillance. Nominees also include Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head for demanding education for girls. Former recipients of the prize, awarded by the European Parliament, include Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi. Mr Snowden's nomination recognized that his disclosure of U.S. surveillance activities was an 'enormous service' to human rights and European citizens, the parliament's Green group said."

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Re:Comparative sacrifice by bware · 2013-10-01 11:20 · Score: 5, Informative

It was far from the uncontrolled dump that Bradley Manning did
Not unlike Snowden, Manning passed on encrypted files to three media outlets for them to publish after redaction and vetting, but David Leigh and Luke Harding of The Guardian were not as careful as Manning, and managed to leak the passphrase. But "the dump" wasn't Manning.
All this is on Wikipedia.
Re:There's three nominees by the+eric+conspiracy · 2013-10-01 13:27 · Score: 4, Informative

It's three Belarusian political prisoners.
Belarus is a European country that has a really nasty government that has basically continued in the Soviet era style despite the fall of the Soviet Union. Some call it the last dictatorship in Europe.
The Belarusians are already up for the Nobel Peace Prize and have won the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Award.