Snowden Shortlisted For Europe's Top Human Rights Award

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."

Re:Comparative sacrifice

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, aren't you guys suppose to leave your office this morning due to the U.S. government shutdown?

Does your boss know you are still trolling forums?

Re:Comparative sacrifice

[cold fjord]

Snowden was and continues to be at far higher risk of assassination than Malala. He's just been luckier.

So far.

Snowden is at no risk of assassination from the United States. He is at risk for arrest and prosecution for the crime of espionage. The most likely outcome of that would be a long sentence in prison. The only American citizens that the US has been targeting are those that have taken up arms against it such as al Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki [go.com].

If you want to claim otherwise, I think you need to provide some evidence.

Re:Comparative sacrifice

[bware]

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

[the eric conspiracy]

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.