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Edward Snowden caught in asylum catch-22
Edward Snowden caught in asylum catch-22
No valid passport, conditional asylum offers and US diplomatic pressure make it hard for NSA whistleblower to leave Moscow
Julian Borger
Edward Snowden is not just trying to find his way out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. He is also attempting to navigate his way through a thicket of international law on political asylum while staying beyond the reach of the US and its allies.
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Widney Brown, Amnesty International's senior director for international law and policy, said that the Latin American states involved could theoretically have sent envoys to Sheremetyevo to furnish Snowden with travel documents.
"However, that would be a highly unusual procedure for use in extremis," Brown said. "It may be that these states would prefer to go through the normal procedures for adjudicating asylum claims."
Snowden's strategy – to appeal for temporary asylum in Russia to allow him to file for asylum elsewhere – is a response to these conditions. He is responding to Putin's conditionality by insisting he has no intention of harming the true interests of his home country, but it is not clear whether he would agree to a temporary gag while in Moscow. Judged on his record so far, it would seem out of character, but he may have little choice.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/edward-snowden-asylum-nsa-whistleblower?CMP=twt_fd
No valid passport, conditional asylum offers and US diplomatic pressure make it hard for NSA whistleblower to leave Moscow
Julian Borger
Edward Snowden is not just trying to find his way out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. He is also attempting to navigate his way through a thicket of international law on political asylum while staying beyond the reach of the US and its allies.
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Widney Brown, Amnesty International's senior director for international law and policy, said that the Latin American states involved could theoretically have sent envoys to Sheremetyevo to furnish Snowden with travel documents.
"However, that would be a highly unusual procedure for use in extremis," Brown said. "It may be that these states would prefer to go through the normal procedures for adjudicating asylum claims."
Snowden's strategy – to appeal for temporary asylum in Russia to allow him to file for asylum elsewhere – is a response to these conditions. He is responding to Putin's conditionality by insisting he has no intention of harming the true interests of his home country, but it is not clear whether he would agree to a temporary gag while in Moscow. Judged on his record so far, it would seem out of character, but he may have little choice.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/edward-snowden-asylum-nsa-whistleblower?CMP=twt_fd
The ACLU's own text contradicts its case for Snowden's asylum bid.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023231312
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