PressTV.ir - 8/12/13
In this July 30, 2013 photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md.
A petition launched by an online US rights group has collected more than 100,000 signatures backing convicted leaker Bradley Manning’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
“Unless we can speak the truth, then peace-making becomes a hollow exercise of rhetoric rather than reality,” Solomon told reporters before handing over the 5,000-page document to the Nobel Institute. “Bradley Manning recognized that necessary precondition. He took profound action to nurture its possibilities on behalf of democracy and peace.”
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