{"id":30681,"date":"2015-09-16T22:41:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T02:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/the-late-boris-nemtsov-edward-snowden-among-candidates.php"},"modified":"2015-09-16T22:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T02:41:18","slug":"the-late-boris-nemtsov-edward-snowden-among-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/the-late-boris-nemtsov-edward-snowden-among-candidates.php","title":{"rendered":"The late Boris Nemtsov, Edward Snowden among candidates &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Published September 11, 2015                  <\/p>\n<p>        Parliament members holds posters while European Commission        President Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his State of the        Union address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg,        eastern France, Wednesday, Sept.9, 2015. Juncker called on        EU countries to agree by next week to share 160,000        refugees, warning that Greece, Italy and Hungary can no        longer cope alone. (AP Photo\/Christian Lutz)(The Associated Press)      <\/p>\n<p>    BRUSSELS  Assassinated    Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and leaker Edward    Snowden are among the candidates later this month for the    European Union's top human rights prize.  <\/p>\n<p>    Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister turned critic of    Russian President Vladimir Putin, was assassinated Feb. 27,    2015, near the Kremlin.  <\/p>\n<p>    With Russia relations already at a low, the EU legislature said    that Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian pilot currently held in    Russia, will also be among the eight candidates presented on    Sep. 28 for the Sakharov Prize.  <\/p>\n<p>    The nominees also include Snowden, the U.S. intelligence leaker    who also was among the candidates two years ago.  <\/p>\n<p>    Previous winners include Nobel Peace Prize laureates Aung San    Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/09\/11\/late-boris-nemtsov-edward-snowden-among-candidates-for-top-european-union-right\/\" title=\"The late Boris Nemtsov, Edward Snowden among candidates ...\">The late Boris Nemtsov, Edward Snowden among candidates ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Published September 11, 2015 Parliament members holds posters while European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his State of the Union address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Sept.9, 2015. Juncker called on EU countries to agree by next week to share 160,000 refugees, warning that Greece, Italy and Hungary can no longer cope alone. (AP Photo\/Christian Lutz)(The Associated Press) BRUSSELS Assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and leaker Edward Snowden are among the candidates later this month for the European Union's top human rights prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}