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Norwegian lawmakers nominate Edward Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize
[CNN] Two Norwegian politicians have jointly nominated National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize, they said Wednesday on their party website.Snowden has "revealed the nature and technological prowess of modern surveillance," and by doing so has contributed to peace, said a joint statement by Bard Vegar Solhjell and Snorre Valen of the Socialist Left Party. Nominations for this year's Nobel Peace Prize -- whose previous winners include such figures as the late South African President Nelson Mandela, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... -- close on Saturday, with the winner announced in October. According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee's rules, Solhjell and Valen are qualified, as national politicians, to make a nomination. The names of each year's nominees are not revealed until 50 years later. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-31 |
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