Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize of the German Humanist Union, a outstanding civil rights group, for exposing the controversial surveillance practices of the NSA and its accomplices.
“Edward Snowden showed exceptional moral courage in exposing illegal surveillance practices,” the nationwide chairman Werner Koep-Kerstin mentioned on Saturday in Rastatt.
With his leaks about NSA actions, Koep-Kerstin claims, Snowden had “initiated a long overdue debate on the limits of the security mania, democratic demands on the control of intelligence as well as international rules of surveillance,” Märkische on-line Zeitungmeans quotes.
The Fritz Bauer Prize was established in 1968 in reminiscence of its founder, Fritz Bauer, the longtime Attorney General of Hesse, who pioneered a authorized combat in opposition to Nazi injustice. The Humanist Union presents the award to those that have excelled in contributions to the humanization, liberalization and democratization of the judiciary.
Last summer season, Snowden had already secured the popularity of the German advocates, receiving the 2013 Whistleblower Award. And in October, a gaggle of US whistleblowers introduced Snowden with the Sam Adams Award for ‘Integrity in Intelligence’ throughout a secret meetingin Moscow.