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Seedersandleechers

(3,044 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 11:03 AM Feb 2012

Bradley Manning: 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination

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February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world.

Our letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee:

We have the great honor of nominating Private First Class Bradley Manning for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Manning is a soldier in the United States army who stands accused of releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The leaked documents pointed to a long history of corruption, war crimes, and imperialism by the United States government in international dealings. These revelations have fueled democratic uprising around the world, including a democratic revolution in Tunisia. According to journalists, his alleged actions helped motivate the democratic Arab Spring movements, shed light on secret corporate influence on our foreign policies, and most recently contributed to the Obama Administration agreeing to withdraw all U.S.troops from the occupation in Iraq.

Bradley Manning has been incarcerated for well over a year by the U.S. government without a trial. He spent over ten months of that time period in solitary confinement, conditions which experts worldwide have criticized as torturous. Juan Mendez, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, has repeatedly requested and been denied a private meeting with Manning to assess his conditions.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29077

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Bradley Manning: 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination (Original Post) Seedersandleechers Feb 2012 OP
Bravo! harun Feb 2012 #1
Not Latest Breaking News Lone_Star_Dem Feb 2012 #2

harun

(11,348 posts)
1. Bravo!
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 11:10 AM
Feb 2012

Lone_Star_Dem

(28,158 posts)
2. Not Latest Breaking News
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 11:28 AM
Feb 2012

It's from days ago and not a MSM source or blog.

Thanks.

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