Shailene Woodley looks gorgeous while joining Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the red carpet at the premiere of their movie Snowden on Tuesday (September 13) in New York City, Justjared.com reports.
The co-stars were joined at the premiere by the film’s other stars Zachary Quinto, Scott Eastwood, Keith Stanfield, Ben Schnetzer, and director Oliver Stone.
Also stepping out to show their support were Sean Penn, Michelle Monaghan, and Zachary‘s boyfriend Miles McMillan.
Earlier in the day, the cast stepped out while doing promo around the city.
EU: Game Changing’ Snowden Resolution Protects Rights of All EU Citizens
Edward Snowden’s legal representative in Hong Kong told Sputnik that last week’s resolution from the European parliament to prevent Snowden’s extradition is a progressive step to protect the rights of citizens in the EU.
The approval by the European Union parliament of a resolution that calls on member states to prevent Edward Snowden’s extradition to the US marks a “natural progression” to ensure greater protection for the rights of EU citizens, lawyer Robert Tibbo told Radio Sputnik on Sunday.
Despite the vote having no legal force, the resolution to offer protection from extradition to Snowden “definitely falls into a game-changing set of resolutions,” said Tibbo, who represented Edward Snowden in Hong Kong.
“The EU has resolved to recognize that from its 2014 EU parliament report, necessary changes need to be made relating to electronic mass surveillance by government.”
The report identified issues such as a lack of transparency and government oversight, and deficiencies in policies and legislation that should ensure the privacy rights and human rights of EU citizens are not violated by surveillance programs, said the lawyer.
“The European Union in 2014 also mentioned the necessity to provide policy legislation and mechanisms to protect whistleblowers,” explained Tibbo.
“That was a year and a half ago, and the resolution last week by the European Parliament was a recognition that European Union members have not done enough so far in terms of bringing about those changes.”
The resolution that was passed on October 29 was a “very significant step,” said Tibbo, which follows a previous resolution in 2013, the 2014 report and a report from the UN rapporteur on human rights as early as 2009, which warned about a lack of protection for civilians’ privacy and human rights.
“With Snowden’s revelations, there was a significant drop in trust between the European Union and the United States, and the European Union is simply moving forward, building up that trust again with the United States government.”
“This is a natural progression, the European Union, based on evidence, based on law and policy, they are making rational decisions on how to move forward to protect European Union citizen’s rights.”
You’ve Got Mail: Snowden Gets 47 Gigs Worth’ of Twitter Notification Emails
whistleblower Edward Snowden
Recently, the famous whistleblower Edward Snowden joined Twitter, and that good deed has too not gone unpunished. Although this time he just got 47Gb of notifications instead of international persecution.
Every time anyone retweeted, favorite or followed, Edward Snowden got an email about it. Here are the numbers: he has over 1.2 million followers, over 200,000 retweets and over 260,000 favorites.
That is an impressive following for anyone, especially for someone who’s only been on Twitter for four days and tweeted 14 times, but heavy hangs the crown-wearing email account.
Source: sputniknews.com
Snowden, Manning didn’t betray US, government betrayed Constitution – whistleblowers’ rights defender
Former US army serviceman, Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning who was found guilty of releasing the largest set of classified documents in history will 
be given Sam Adams Prize. Manning who is now in jail will be honored a ceremony in absentia for his revelations of the war crimes the US and coalition forces committed in Iraq. The ceremony will be held in Oxford University, prestigious Oxford Union Society on February 19. To discuss the topic in details the Voice of Russia talked to Beatrice Edwards, Executive Director at government accountability project responsible for the organization’s actions defending whistleblowers through the Congress, the media and the courts.
– First of all, thanks for joining us. Chelsea Manning has been given the Sam Adams Prize but will stay behind bars for 35 years, as we know which is practically for life. Can this prize somehow influence the US authorities’ attitude to Manning as the criminal?
– Well, it is improbable that it would change the court sentence that was given to Chelsea Manning. The award itself is given by civilian organizations representing retired intelligence officers. It certainly does though show how the public feels about disclosures of what happened, classified material that many of us should have seen or should have known, material that really wasn’t properly classified, and how the government reacted to Chelsea Manning’s disclosures.
– Could you give us a bit more details, actually your opinion about the sentence to Chelsea Manning, what do you think about it?
– Well, I think it is draconian; it is very far out of line with what other industrialized countries do in the case of a release of classified information. As I understand it, most European countries when something like that happens and there is a guilty party the sentence is two years, five years, something like that and in the US the sentence of 35 years for a 26 year old is as you said in your opening, equivalent to life imprisonment, that is a sentence that should be reserved for violent criminals who have done irrevocable harm to other people and I don’t think anyone would argue that that’s what Chelsea Manning did.
– Now, while general public mainly regards whistleblowers as heroes, well, they remain prisoners for the law, so objectively speaking, Manning and Snowden betrayed their country when they leaked this classified information. First of all, do you agree with that, secondly, in your opinion, should authorities punish whistleblowers all together?
– In answer to your first question, no, I don’t agree with that, and I think that the Snowden disclosures and the Manning disclosures showed in fact the two whistleblowers did not betray the country, the government betrayed our Constitution that we should not be guilty of human rights abuses, the US is a signatory country to the universal declaration of Human Rights and the atrocity is that the Manning disclosures revealed, showed that the government is conducting war in a way that the violation of the principles of the nation and then the disclosures that Edward Snowden made showed the US executive branch that part of the government that responds to the President is in a violation of the Constitution itself, and it is also in the violation of the first few Amendments to the Constitution.
We have constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech, freedom of association, freedom from search and seizure and the National Security Agency, which Edward Snowden worked for as a contractor is in violation of all those Amendments. So to call the two of them traitors is really to misunderstand the wrongdoing of which the government is guilty.
And in answer to your second question, the legal definition of the whistleblower in the US is a person who has a good, reasonable belief that he or she is disclosing fraud, waste, abuse of authority, illegality or a danger to the public and I think both Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden meet that definition, without question, therefore they should be protected.
– Thanks a lot for your opinion!
Source: Panorama.am