Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

Sat Feb 8 15:11:26 UTC 2020

They all deserve it.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 6:21 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

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> Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden nominated for the 2020
> Nobel Peace Prize
>
> Żaklin Nastić (MdB)<
> http://www.zaklinnastic.de/julian-assange-chelsea-manning-und-edward-snowden-fuer-friedensnobelpreis-2020-nominiert/
> >:
>
> I am one of a total of 17 members of our parliamentary group who have
> nominated Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for the 2020
> Nobel Peace Prize. These brave people should not be criminalized, but
> should be recognized and honored. The war criminals and their henchmen must
> be held accountable.
>
> We feel that Assange, Manning and Snowden have to be recognized for their
> “unprecedented contributions to the pursuit of peace and their immense
> personal sacrifices to promote peace for all”. With the unveiling of US war
> crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and the global surveillance program of the
> US secret services, the three have “exposed the architecture of war and
> strengthened the architecture of peace”
>
> Here you can find our complete letter to the Nobel Committee in Oslo:
> Nobel Prize nomination Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden<
> https://defend.wikileaks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-01-31-Nobel_Nomination_Julian-Assange_Chelsea-Manning_Edward-Snowden.pdf
> >
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>
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> Full text of the letter:
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> Dear Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
>
> We wish to nominate Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for
> the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in honour of their unparalleled contributions
> to the pursuit of peace, and their immense personal sacrifices to promote
> peace for all.
>
> The year 2020 began with Julian Assange arbitrarily detained and tortured,
> at risk of death according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and over
> 100 medical doctors, for revealing the extent of harm and illegality behind
> the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. 2020 began with Chelsea Manning in her
> secound year of renewed imprisonment for resisting to testify to a Grand
> Jury empaneled against Wikileaks, after having also been imprisoned seven
> years previously and tortured, following her disclosures that were
> published by Julian Assange. 2020 began with Edward Snowden in his 7th year
> of asylum for revealing illegal mass surveillance, in defence of the
> liberties underpinning revelations such as those made by Chelsea Manning
> and Julian Assange.
>
> The Collateral Murder video, provided by Chelsea Manning in 2010 and
> published by Wikileaks, honoured the dignity of those slain needlessly in
> war. It gave names and identities to victims whose humanity had been kept
> from public view, capturing the last moments of life for a young Reuters
> photojournalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen. Namir, who was killed in cold blood
> while on assignment in Baghdad, was described by his colleagues as among
> “the pre-eminent war photographers in Iraq” with “a tender eye that brought
> humanity via quiet moments to a vicious war”.
>
> For humanising Namir and his driver Saeed Chmagh, a father of four, slain
> in front of two children who sat strafed with bullets in a van, Julian
> Assange faces 175 years in a US prison under the 1917 Espionage Act, and
> Chelsea Manning is currently detained without charge.
>
> As well as humanising innocent victims of war, in 2010 Julian Assange and
> Wikileaks exposed the means by which public abhorrence of killing is
> overcome, and peace subverted, by psychological manipulation and strategic
> messaging.
>
> In March 2010 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) produced a memorandum,
> subsequently published by Wikileaks, entitled, Afghanistan: Sustaining West
> European Support for the NATO-led Mission-Why Counting on Apathy Might Not
> Be Enough.
>
> At the time of the memorandum, 80 percent of French and German publics
> opposed greater troop deployment to Afghanistan. The memo expressed concern
> that public “indifference might turn into active hostility if spring and
> summer fighting results in an upsurge in military or Afghan civilian
> casualties.” To overcome public opposition to the “bloody summer” ahead,
> the memorandum advised tailoring messages for French audiences that “could
> tap into acute French concern for civilians and refugees,” given that
> French “opponents most commonly argued that the mission hurts civilians.”
>
> “Appeals by President Obama and Afghan women might gain traction” the
> memorandum added.
>
> With respect to the legalities of peace, Julian Assange and Wikileaks have
> contributed to the historical record on the International Criminal Court
> (ICC), established in 2002 under the Rome Statute of 1998, to promote the
> “peace, security and well-being of the world.” The ICC’s mission was to end
> impunity by prosecuting “the worst atrocities known to mankind”: war
> crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide.
>
> When the ICC’s enforcement capabilities were taking shape in the years
> following its inception, cables published by WikiLeaks exposed bilateral
> deals between nations under Article 98 of the Rome Statute, in which states
> placed themselves outside the ICC’s jurisdiction. The Article 98 deals
> undercut the ICC’s power to prosecute war crimes and other internationally
> illegal obstacles to a peaceful world order.
>
> Later, in 2013, when Edward Snowden revealed the warrantless
> masssurveillance of citizens and officials worldwide, he exposed an immense
> global network with the capability to intercept and obstruct peace
> proponents such as Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange. Edward Snowden’s
> revelations have contributed to international investigations, transparency
> initiatives and legislative reforms around the globe.
>
> These are but a selection of the contributions that Julian Assange,
> Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden have made towards pursuing and defending
> lasting peace.
>
> Together, their actions have exposed the architecture of abuse and war,
> and fortified the architecture of peace. In return, all three individuals
> have been forced to sacrifice the very liberties, rights and human welfare
> that they worked so hard to defend.
>
> A Nobel Peace Prize for Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden
> would do more than honour their actions as individuals. It would ennoble
> the risks and sacrifices that those pursuing peace so often undertake, to
> secure the peace and freedom for all.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sevim Dağdelen Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Doris Achelwilm Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Diether Dehm Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Sylvia Gabelmann Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Heike Hänsel Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Andrej Hunko Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Ulla Jelpke Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Jutta Krellmann Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Fabio De Masi Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Żaklin Nastić Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Dr. Alexander S. Neu Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Eva-Maria Schreiber Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Alexander Ulrich Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Kathrin Vogler Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Andreas Wagner Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Pia Zimmermann Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Sabine Zimmermann Member of the German Bundestag
>
> Appendices
>
> Julian Assange’s Prizes and Awards
>
>   *   The Economist New Media Award (2008)
>   *   The Amnesty New Media Award (2009)
>   *   TIME Magazine Person of the Year, People’s Choice (highest global
> vote) (2010)
>   *   The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2010)
>   *   The National Union of Journalists Journalist of the Year (Hrafnsson)
> (2011)
>   *   The Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal (2011)
>   *   The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011)
>   *   The Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator (2011)
>   *   The Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism
> (2011)
>   *   The Voltaire Award for Free Speech (2011)
>   *   The International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National
> Union of Italian Journalists (2011)
>   *   The Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (2011)
>   *   The Privacy International Hero of Privacy (2012)
>   *   The Global Exchange Human Rights People’s Choice Award (2013)
>   *   The Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts (2013)
>   *   The Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award (2013)
>   *   The Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize (2014)
>   *   The Willy Brandt Award for Political Courage (Harrison) (2015)
>   *   The Galizia Prize for Journalists, Whistleblower and Defenders of
> the Right to Information (2019)
>   *   The Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism & Activism
> (2019)
>   *   The Compassion in Care’s Gavin MacFadyen Award for Whistleblowers
> (2019)
>
> Chelsea Manning’s Prizes and Awards
>
>   *   The Army Service Ribbon (2008)
>   *   The National Defense Service Medal (2008)
>   *   The Global War on Terrorism Service Medal (2009)
>   *   The Overseas Service Medal (2009)
>   *   The Iraq Campaign Medal (2009)
>   *   The Whistleblowerpreis (2011)
>   *   The Global Exchange People’s Choice Award (2012)
>   *   The US Peace Prize, US Peace Memorial Foundation (2013)
>   *   The Sean McBride Peace Prize, International Peace Bureau (2013)
>   *   The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2014)
>   *   The EFF Pioneer Award for whistleblowing (2017)
>
> Edward Snowden’s Prizes and Awards
>
>   *   The German Whistleblower Prize (2013)
>   *   The Sam Adams Award (2013)
>   *   The Rector of the University of Glasgow (2014)
>   *   The German Big Brother Award (2014)
>   *   The Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize (2014)
>   *   The Right Livelihood Award (2014)
>   *   The Carl Von Ossietzky Medal (2014)
>   *   The IQ Award (2014)
>   *   The Norsk PEN Ossietzky Prize (2016)
>
> Other Examples of Julian Assange’s work
>
> Julian Assange has published over 10 million documents with a perfect
> verification record. One of his first major releases was the a copy of the
> Guantanamo Bay prison camp’s 2003 Standard Operating Procedures for the US
> Army.
>
> In 2010, WikiLeaks came to global attention by publishing tens of
> thousands of classified documents from the United States, including the
> Afghan War Diaries and the Iraq War Logs, which documented more than
> 100,000 occupation related civilian killings.
>
> Wikileaks also published “Cablegate” in 2010, the State Department
> diplomatic cables.
>
> In 2011 Wikileaks published the “Gitmo Files”, documents on 767 of the 779
> prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
>
> WikiLeaks has published the “Global Intelligence Files” (5 million emails
> from intelligence contractor Stratfor), “Spy Files: Russia”, two million
> files from Syrian political elites, the “Saudi Cables” (hundreds of
> thousands of files from the Saudi Foreign Ministry)
>
> WikiLeaks publications have revealed extensive information on the
> disastrous war on Libya and proof of US knowledge of Saudi and Qatari
> government backing of ISIS and Al Nusra in Syria.
>
> One of WikiLeaks recent investigations, in collaboration with major
> European media, revealed a corrupt arms deal between French state-owned
> company and the United Arab Emirates.
>
> In the European context, Julian Assange revealed that the US’s National
> Security Agency and the CIA targeted:
>
>   *   German Chancellor Angela Merkel
>   *   French Presidents Hollande, Sarkozy, and Chirac, as well as French
> cabinet ministers and the French Ambassador to the United States.
>   *   the French Finance Minister and US orders of the interception of
> every French company contract or negotiation valued at more than $200
> million
>   *   communications of Foreign Minister Steinmeier, in the context of
> moves to end extraordinary rendition flights through Germany
>   *   the Swiss phone of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
> Chief of Staff for long term interception
>   *   a meeting between then French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel and
> Berlusconi
>
> Julian Assange also published original US intercepts from French senior
> officials concerning:
>
>   *   the leadership and future of the European Union
>   *   the relationship between the Hollande administration and the German
> government of Angela Merkel
>   *   French efforts to determine the make-up of the executive staff of
> the United Nations
>   *   French officials’ communications concerning US spying on France
>   *   French involvement in the conflict in Palestine
>
> Contact: Sevim Dagdelen | Deutscher Bundestag | Platz der Republik 1 |
> 11011 Berlin | Germany E-Mail: sevim.dagdelen at bundestag.de<mailto:
> sevim.dagdelen at bundestag.de>
>
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