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March 6, 2013
Icelandic MPs and Swedish MEPs call for Manning to get Peace Prize

A group of Icelandic MPs and Swedish Members of the European Parliament have called on the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to award its prize for 2013 to Bradley Manning, the gay US soldier that leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks

A group of Icelandic MPs have called for Wikileaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the second time in two years, and have been joined by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)

All three MPs from Iceland’s The Movement party and the Swedish Pirate Party’s two MEPs wrote to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo, Norway, to urge them to award Manning the prize.

They were joined in this call by Slim Amamou, a former Tunisian Secretary of State for Sport and Youth.

October 1, 2012
Pussy Riot appeal delayed after lawyer fired

Members of pro-gay female Russian punk band will have to wait to see if their two year jail term can be reduced

A court appeal into the sentencing of three members of Russian female punk band Pussy Riot has been postponed after one of the group's lawyers was fired.

Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were found guilty of 'hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred' for singing a pro-gay protest song in Moscow’s central Orthodox cathedral and were jailed for two years.

The trio's appeal hearing today (1 October) was adjourned until later this month after Samutsevich's representative was sacked over an undisclosed dispute.

December 27, 2011
Gay activist put forward for Nobel Peace Prize

French activists launch bid for Nobel Peace Prize for international gay rights campaigner Louis-Georges Tin

Activists in France have launched a bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize for gay rights campaigner and author Louis-Georges Tin.

Tin, 37, who was born in Martinique and also fights against racism, was instrumental in establishing the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) which has taken place every 17 May since 2005 and is celebrated in more than 70 countries around the world.