Alternative Nobel Prize for Snowden – Money.pl

2014-12-01 20:00

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Author: (ed. DT)

Edward Snowden was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. On his behalf took her with him awarded the British newspaper publisher The Guardian Alan Rusbridger.

Alternative Nobel Foundation awarded the Right Livelihood Snowden for the courage and skill, which is shown, revealing an unprecedented range of state supervision beyond democratic control (…) . Prizes are awarded to the Foundation to individuals or organizations whose output is not recognition among members of the Nobel committee.

– is a unique privilege to be numbered among the those many who fight for human rights – said Snowden by video link at a ceremony in the Swedish parliament. He stressed that the people who worked with him – journalists, editors, lawyers – Many risked . But incurred victims paid off – he said.

Since the revealed surveillance programs conducted by the US National Security Agency (NSA) in the world, much has changed when it comes to data protection . – This is the basis on which we can build – he said.

At the ceremony in the Swedish Parliament Snowden’s father was present. Rusbridger noted that Snowden himself could easily publish materials related to the NSA. Instead, the trusted journalists who have responsibly to write about what they saw as the most important. He believed in journalism – emphasized the publisher of The Guardian . It reporters this journal Snowden NSA handed over the documents.

– Edward Snowden gave the inhabitants of this planet a big favor – Jakob von Uexküll said – Swedish-German philanthropist who established in 1980 the alternative Nobel Prize. – Without his courage still would not know anything about the scale of these new offenses, which enabled the technical progress .

Snowden, a former associate of the NSA, is being prosecuted by the US authorities, who want to bring him to trial for treason . In 2013, he escaped from the US to Hong Kong, and from there he went to Russia, where he obtained a temporary asylum, and then agreed to a three-year stay. Prior to disclose secret information about mass surveillance both US citizens and foreigners, including the leaders of the allied countries.

The other winners of this year’s Nobel alternative human rights defenders: Asma Jahangir Pakistani and Basil Fernando from Hong Kong, and the US environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Alternative Nobel Prize for Snowden – Money.pl