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André Shepherd and Andras Lipsch

Human Rights Award of Pro Asyl for U.S. AWOL soldier André Shepherd

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(12.09.2015) On September 12, 2015, in Frankfurt/Main the foundation, PRO ASYL presented its this year's human rights award to the U.S. AWOL soldier and asylum candidate in Germany, André Shepherd.

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Bernd Pickert and André Shepherd

U.S. AWOL soldier André Shepherd receives award from German newspaper

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(18.09.2010) „In choosing André Shepherd, the taz Readers Award 2010 honours an Iraq war veteran whose fate made him a symbolic figure," editor Bernd Pickert said at the award ceremony, as quoted in the taz today. "André Shepherd did what soldiers are prohibited from doing: he made a decision. Alone. He took responsibility for his own decisions and said: I am not doing this anymore." Pickert praised Shepherd’s courage to defy accepted opinion and risk great personal hardship for his convictions.

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