Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Re:Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins 2023 Nobel ... by elashri on Friday October 06, 2023 @07:59AM (#37789545)

My favorite Nobel peace prize goes to Abiy Ahmed who was awarded 2019 prize. He went to Sweden took the prize, deliver a speech then a couple of months later he went on a streak of atrocious in Ethiopia [1]. You name it ( mass killing, rape, genocide..etc).

Also take into consideration that any head of state, prime minister or cabinet member in any government can nominate people for the prize (A lot of other people can do that too)[2] . So it would be always interesting to know who our governments officials nominated over time

[1] https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/07/09/...

[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

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Re:Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins 2023 Nobel ... by sorenjan on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:19AM (#37791125)

The peace prize is awarded in Norway.

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Re:Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins 2023 Nobel ... by alephnerd on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:36AM (#37791353)

> He went to Sweden took the prize

Norway

> So it would be always interesting to know who our governments officials nominated over time

There's a list of nominees [0].

The Pakistani Senate nominated Erdogan for this year's prize, for example [0].

That said, most nominations seem to be done by Norwegian MPs trying to message to their own constituents (eg. Abiy's nomination and the large Ethiopian diaspora voting bloc in Norway)

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nobel_Peace_Prize

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