The European Parliament’s Sakharov prize nominees have been announced as Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, Somali activist Edna Adan Ismai, the assassinated former Russian PM Boris Nemtsov, Ukrainian pilot imprisoned in Russia Nadiya Savchenko, three whistle-blowers (Edward Snowden Antoine Deltour and Stéphanie Gibaud), and anti-Chavez coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática. …read more
Source: EUobserver