They've drawn up a list of the ten most likely contenders - the actual shortlist is kept secret.
At the time of typing Bradley Manning is the runaway front-runner with 40% of the vote.
"The US soldier, Private Bradley Manning, is accused of leaking more than 250,000 secret diplomatic cables to Julian Assange – as well as the haunting video of a US Apache helicopter executing civilians in Baghdad.
"Of all the protagonists in the WikiLeaks melodrama, it is Manning who has paid the highest personal price. He has spent the past year and four months in custody, most of it in solitary confinement...
"The White House would undoubtedly react furiously were the Nobel committee to give Manning, now 23, the prize – a bold gesture to whistleblowers everywhere. The award would also make it harder for a US military court to hand Manning a punitive jail term. He would begin to look like a political prisoner."
"Begin to"!!?
You can read the article in full and vote - for Bradley - here.
• Bradley Manning Support Network
Update: Bradley won this readers' poll, but not this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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But he's still awaiting trial, so giving him the award would undermine his defence presumably? :O
ReplyDeleteI votes for Aung San Suu Kyi. :)
I was only joking, of course.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Bradders. :)
After I voted it said the poll was open for another day but now it says it's closed.
If true Bradley has won it by a landslide, with 3178 votes - over 40%.
The fact Assange has the second largest vote is a bit of a bummer, but hey...