OSLO: After the trauma of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, champions and icons of free speech head the pack in the names put forward for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Among nominations entered ahead of this week's deadline are the Danish editor Flemming Rose, who made waves in 2005 by publishing Prophet Mohammed cartoons in his paper Jyllands-Posten, jailed Saudi blogger Raef Badawi and fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.

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