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http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/5...snowden-nobel-eight-qualified-nominations.htm
If Barack Obama can be given a peace prize, why not Edward Snowden! It seems the public support for whistle-blower Edward Snowden has been growing over the year. As in total, eight public nominations have been made for the whistleblower Edward Snowden for 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. The list comprises of prominent politicians, bureaucrats, intellectuals and faculties of renowned institutes.
According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a nomination is considered valid if it is submitted by members of national assemblies and governments of states, members of international courts, university rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes, persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, among others.
Will Snowden make it to the list of Nobel Peace nominations? If this is the question coming to the mind, then looking at the public nominations, there is no doubt, but then again, the Nobel committee does have a mind of its own.
Here are the eight nominations made in favor of Edward Snowden: