Alternative Nobel withelmen Syria

stockholm - For her efforts in the rescue of civilians in the Syrian civil war, the NGO White Helmets Thursday awarded the Right Livelihood Award, the \'Alternative Nobel Prize '.

The Syrians share the award with the Egyptian feminist Mozn Hassan, Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannoesjkina and the independent Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet. The prize sum of 3 million Swedish crowns (313 000) connected.

Alternative Nobel Prizes awarded since 1980 to individuals or organizations that are ignored by the founder, the Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, the 'normal' Nobel Prizes.