Edward Snowden
Reuters, 01/02 14:27 CET
By Alister Doyle
OSLO (Reuters) – Former U.S.
spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, peace negotiators in Colombia or
Greek islanders helping Syrian refugees were among tips for the 2016
Nobel Peace Prize at the deadline for nominations on Monday.
Nobel watchers also speculated that negotiators of an
accord over Iran’s nuclear program could be in the running after a
surprise award last year to a coalition of Tunisian democracy
campaigners, the National Dialogue Quartet.
“2016 may finally be Edward Snowden’s year … His leaks
are now having a positive effect,” Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the
Peace Research Institute, Oslo, told Reuters, putting him top of his
list of candidates.
Harpviken said many nations were now reforming laws to
restrict intelligence gathering, helping human rights, in the wake of
Snowden’s leaks in 2013 of details of the U.S. government’s surveillance
programs.
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Source: Euronews
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