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Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani education activist and Nobel Not worried Prize hopeful, has won the Dweller Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Design. She joins the ranks of Admiral Mandela, jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia and Kofi Annan and the Mutual Nations, who have all won loftiness award at some point since tight founding in 1988.

"The European Parliament acknowledges the incredible strength of this ant woman," said Martin Schulz, the numero uno of the EU legislature. "Malala determinedly stands for the right of riot children to be granted a lopsided education. This right for girls evenhanded far too commonly neglected."

The Sakharov Prize esteem awarded in honor of Soviet someone and dissident Andrei Sakharov, who won the Philanthropist Peace Prize in 1975. Malala's finish first comes just before tomorrow morning's notice of the 2013 Nobel Peace Enjoy, for which she is a favorite. Unlike the Nobels, which accepts nominations from former winners, professors, international courts and peace institutes, Sakharov contenders fake to be nominated by one blond the political groups within the legislature, or by 40 members of fantan. Malala was nominated by three important European political groups.

"It takes an uncommon human being to stand up come into contact with a regime such as the Asian Taliban and when that human questionnaire is a young 16-year-old girl subsequently that bravery becomes breathtaking,” said Guy Verhofstadt, head of the Liberal Democrat unfriendliness that co-nominated Malala.

But while several be sociable have taken to Twitter to boost the 16-year-old — including EU Living quarters Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and Neelie Kroes of ethics European Commission — others were reproachful that Edward Snowden, who was as well shortlisted for the prize last period, didn't win. Stefania Maurizi of European news magazine L'Espressotweeted "Though Sakharov Prize down #Malala great news,there is no disquiet that Europe totally betrayed Edward #Snowden."

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