No regrets from Snowden - winner of Swedish award
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STORY: The winner of the Right Livelihood Honorary Award, former United States spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, said on Monday (December 1) he would make the necessary sacrifices again if he had to.
He was awarded the Right Livelihood Honorary Award, often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize', for his work on press freedom.
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation said Snowden was given the prize "for his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and constitutional rights".
"I myself have lived in exile for more than one year and a half, and these are things that are unlikely to change soon, but they're worth it. All the prices we've paid, all the sacrifices we made, I believe we would do again - I know I would do again."
Snowden is wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programs and lives in
STORY: The winner of the Right Livelihood Honorary Award, former United States spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, said on Monday (December 1) he would make the necessary sacrifices again if he had to.
He was awarded the Right Livelihood Honorary Award, often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize', for his work on press freedom.
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation said Snowden was given the prize "for his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and constitutional rights".
"I myself have lived in exile for more than one year and a half, and these are things that are unlikely to change soon, but they're worth it. All the prices we've paid, all the sacrifices we made, I believe we would do again - I know I would do again."
Snowden is wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programs and lives in