(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROMANIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT CORINA CRETU SAYING:<br/> <br />"The nominations proposed by political groups or more than forty members are the following in alphabetical order."<br/> <br />Past winners of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought include Nelson Mandela and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.<br/> <br />This year, fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden is one of seven nominees, announced in Brussels on Monday (September 16).<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROMANIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT CORINA CRETU SAYING:<br/> <br />"Edward Snowden, the American computer specialist and the former CIA NSA employee who released classified information about mass surveillance programmes of communication technologies."<br/> <br />Snowden, who is in hiding in Russia, was nominated by the Greens in the European Parliament who said in a statement he had done an "enormous service for human rights" by disclosing secret American internet and telephone surveillance
