Assange, Manning and Snowden nominated for Nobel Prize

Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire has nominated Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden for this award.

Report informs citing RIA Novosti, this is stated in Corrigan's letter to the Nobel Committee.

"All three have been individually nominated in previous years for the Peace Prize, but none received it to date. My reasons for selecting them together are simple.

Individually, each has given countless examples of courage, exposing governments' illegal actions that caused millions of deaths—putting their own freedoms and lives on the line.

Collectively, their lives of self-sacrifice and selflessness constitute remarkable demonstrations of the magnificence of the human spirit. They are indeed breathtaking testimonies to the goodness inherent in the human heart.

Currently, Assange is in Belmarsh Prison, UK, facing extradition charges to the USA, as the British government cooperates with the American Grand Jury to condemn him (an Australian citizen and publisher) to cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment, which could even lead to the death penalty.

Even more insidious, with a few honorable exceptions, the Main Stream Media–if not silent at the unjust torture of Assange by the UK and US governments–collude in the abuse of Assange, a fellow publisher. If Assange is extradited to the USA to stand trial and imprisoned for truth-telling, thereafter, no reporter, newspaper, or publisher in the world will be safe from the same treatment by the USA and other repressive governments opposed to public accountability and scrutiny.

Snowden is seeking asylum in Moscow (Russia has just granted him citizenship to help protect his life) and cannot return to his home in the USA lest he is arrested and confined to an American prison for life.

Manning is in an American prison, having been re-arrested and held because she courageously refuses to give testimony against Assange.

All of these three Champions of Peace followed their consciences, did their duty with love. I am sure that they were afraid, but they endured their Dark Nights of the Soul; they each did something beautiful and magnificent in service of others. We must all be grateful for their uplifting spirits," the letter reads.