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Snowden granted 1 yr asylum in Russia, leaves airport to undisclosed location
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Published on 1 Aug 2013
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia
and is allowed to enter the country's territory. The whistleblower has been granted
temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden's legal representative Anatoly
Kucherena said.
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Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport (PHOTOS) Published
time: August 01, 2013 11:45
Edited time: August 01, 2013 14:08
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Russia, Snowden, USA
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia
and is allowed to enter the country’s territory.The whistleblower has been granted
temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden's legal representative Anatoly
Kucherena said, with his words later confirmed by Russia’s Federal Migration
service.
“I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service.
They are what he needs to leave the transit zone,” he added.
Kucherena showed a photocopy of the document to the press. According to it,
Snowden is free to stay in Russia until at least July 31, 2014. His asylum status
may be extended annually upon request. With his newly-awarded legal status in
Russia, Snowden cannot be handed over to the US authorities, even if Washington
files an official request. He can now be transported to the United States only if he
agrees to go voluntarily. Snowden departed at around 15.30 Moscow time (11.30
GMT), airport sources said. His departure came some 30 minutes before his new
refugee status was officially announced. His present location has not been made
public nor will it be disclosed, Kucherena said.
“He is the most wanted person on earth and his security will be a priority,” the
attorney explained. “He will deal with personal security issues and lodging himself.
I will just consult him as his lawyer.”
Snowden eventually intends to talk to the press in Russia, but needs at least one
day of privacy, Kucherena said.
The whistleblower was unaccompanied when he left the airport in a regular taxi,
Kucherena added. However, WikiLeaks contradicted the lawyer, saying the
organization’s activist Sarah Harrison accompanied Snowden. Russia is confident
that the latest development in the Snowden case will not affect US President Barack
Obama’s upcoming visit to Moscow, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.
“We are aware of the atmosphere being created in the US over Snowden, but we
didn’t get any signals [indicating a possible cancellation of the visit] from American
authorities,” he told RIA Novosti.
Snowden, a former CIA employee and NSA contractor, came to international
prominence after leaking several classified documents detailing massive electronic
surveillance by the US government and foreign allies who collaborated with them.
Photo of Edward Snowden leaving Sheremetyevo Airport (Video still from http://www.vesti.ru)
Snowden was hiding out in a Hong Kong hotel when he first went public in May.
Amidst mounting US pressure on both Beijing and local authorities in the former-
British colony to hand the whistleblower over for prosecution, Snowden flew to
Moscow on June 23.
Moscow was initially intended as a temporary stopover on his journey, as Snowden
was believed to be headed to Ecuador via Cuba. However, he ended up getting
stranded at Sheremetyevo Airport after the US government revoked his passport.
Snowden could neither leave Russia nor enter it, forcing him to remain in the
airport’s transit zone. In July, Snowden applied for temporary asylum in Russia, a
status that would allow him to live and work in the country for one year. Kucherena
earlier said the fugitive whistleblower is considering securing permanent residency
in Russia, where he will attempt to build a life.
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Snowden leaves airport after getting asylum in RussiaA photocopy of the document
given to Edward Snowden, shown by lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, 1 August Lawyer
Anatoly Kucherena showed a photocopy of the document given to Mr Snowden
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US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he has
been staying since June after being granted temporary asylum.He left unobserved
after receiving, his lawyer said, the necessary papers to enter Russian territory
from Sheremetyevo Airport's transit zone.The US has charged Mr Snowden with
leaking details of its electronic surveillance programmes.Russia's decision is likely
to further strain its ties with the US.
A strongly worded US reaction can be expected shortly, as the news sinks in in the
US, the BBC's Daniel Sandford reports from Moscow. Mr Snowden arrived in
Moscow on 23 June from Hong Kong, after making his revelations.The Snowden
affair has caused diplomatic ructions around the world, upsetting the United States'
close allies and traditional enemies.
'Most pursued man'
Mr Snowden left the airport around 14:00 local time (10:00 GMT), the airport press
office told the BBC.Despite the heavy presence of news organisations at the airport,
his departure was apparently not spotted by media. The lawyer, Anatoly
Kucherena, said: "His location is not being made public for security reasons since
he is the most pursued man on the planet. He himself will decide where he will go."
The whistleblowing organisation Wikileaks, which has been helping him since he
made his revelations, said in a tweet that he had been given asylum.
"Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia for a year and has now
left Moscow airport under the care of Wikileaks' Sarah Harrison," it said.
Ms Harrison is a member of the Wikileaks legal team and has been helping Mr
Snowden.
Mr Kucherena also said he had been awarded temporary asylum.
US Attorney General Eric Holder has given Moscow an assurance that Mr Snowden
will not face the death penalty
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Snowden finally leaves Moscow airport after Russia grants him asylum in the
country for one year
The U.S. whistleblower had lacked necessary document he needed to cross into
Russia He had been kept in designated security areas in Moscow AirportTaken to
secure location after he is given a year of asylum in RussiaOfficials insist saga will
not damage country's ties with the U.S.
By Hugo Gye and Will Stewart In Moscow
PUBLISHED: 13:11, 1 August 2013 | UPDATED: 13:55, 1 August 2013
Out: Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he had been living for the past month
Edward Snowden has finally been allowed to leave the airport in Moscow where he
has been living for over a month after he received a document granting him asylum
in Russia for one year.The American fugitive wanted for leaking classified
intelligence documents stepped out of Sheremetyevo airport this afternoon after
weeks spent in legal limbo.His Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said: 'I have just
handed him the documents from the Russian Federal Migration Service. They allow
him to leave the airport.'He added: 'I have just seen him off. He has left for a
secure location. Security is a very serious matter for him.'
Snowden slipped out of the airport in a taxi without being spotted by the dozens of
reporters and photographers who have camped out in the airport for weeks.
'He is the most wanted man on planet Earth,' his lawyer said. 'What do you think
he is going to do? He has to think about his personal security. I cannot tell you
where he is going.
'I put him in a taxi 15 to 20 minutes ago and gave him his certificate on getting
refugee status in the Russian Federation. He can live wherever he wants in Russia.
It's his personal choice.'The refugee was accompanied by Sarah Harrison, a British
representative of WikiLeaks who has been staying with Snowden in the airport.
The group tweeted: 'Edward Snowden has successfully acquired refugee status in
Russia and will shortly leave the airport.'
It added: 'We would like to thank the Russian people and all those others who have
helped to protect Mr Snowden. We have won the battle - now the war.'
Gone: Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena announced that his client had been granted asylum today
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/24/article-0-1AF94C78000005DC-992_634x413.jpg
Long stay: Snowden has been in legal limbo in the airport for more than a month since arriving in Hong Kong
The 30-year-old has apparently agreed not to disclose any more classified
information as a condition of his remaining in Russia.Snowden faces living under
strict curbs imposed by the Russian security agencies even though he has been
allowed to move from his hideaway in an airport transit zone.
More...
Stripped of his rank and facing the rest of his life behind bars: Bradley Manning's
lawyers prepare him to take the stand in desperate bid to avoid 136-YEAR sentence
OJ Simpson's prison time cut after pleading with parole board that he was a 'model
inmate' - but he will be behind bars for at least four more yearsHe arrived at
Sheremetyevo from Hong Kong on June 23 but was unable to leave because the
U.S. had revoked his passport.The runaway's movements will initially be strictly
curtailed, but President Vladimir Putin has denied his intelligence services are
seeking secrets known to the former contractor for the National Security Agency.
The revelation will fuel U.S. concerns that further sensitive data is in jeopardy and
could fall into the hands of the Russian government. The White House has
been ‘seeking clarity’ about Snowden's status.
Paperwork: Kucherena announced today that the relevant documents had been
given to SnowdenExit: Airport security staff secured an area yesterday in
preparation for Snowden to leave the airport at last
Vladimir Volokh, the head of the public council of the Russian Federal Migration
Service, insisted: ‘He will only be allowed to stay in places designated by Russian
law enforcement agencies.’
Kremlin official Yuri Ushakov insisted today that the long-running saga would not
affect ties between the U.S. and Russia, saying Snowden's case was 'relatively
insignificant'.
He added: 'Our president has expressed hope many times that this will not affect
the character of our relations.'
Snowden has indicated he later hopes to secure exile in South America with offers
from Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, but this week his lawyer said he might
apply for Russian citizenship.
‘Edward also asked me to thank all the women in Russia for offering him to marry
them,’ added the lawyer. ‘He was in stitches of laughter when he heard that there
were a lot of such proposals.
‘I passed him some clothes. I noticed that each time we meet he wears one and the
same shirt.
‘So I went out and bought him some shirts and trousers so that he at least could
have a chance to change. There is no laundry or ironing service in the conditions
where he lives right now.’
Home: Snowden has been in Sheremetyevo Airport (pictured) since arriving from
Hong Kong on June 23
Dragging on: View of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, which Snowden has called
home for a month now. He nearly got out Tuesday night but his hopes were dashed
as a bureaucratic snag halted his plans
Dragging on: View of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, which Snowden called home
for a month He brought the fugitive classic Russian books by Anton Chekhov, and
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment.The novel is about the mental
anguish and moral dilemmas of a poor ex-student who kills a pawnbroker for her
cash, but Kucherena said: ‘I'm not implying he's going through a similar mental
anguish.’Russia has rejected White House calls for Snowden to be deported to the
US to face espionage charges for leaking details of the NSA's wide-ranging spying
activities targeting data and phone communication. Volokh confirmed Snowden
would ‘not be extradited to any country where his life might be in danger, because
he has applied for asylum here.’ Putin demanded that Snowden stops leaking
secrets damaging to the U.S. while he is in Russia.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382495/Snowden-finally-leaves-Moscow-airport-Russia-grants-asylum-country-year.html#ixzz2aj3zwwMd
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Published on 1 Aug 2013
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia
and is allowed to enter the country's territory. The whistleblower has been granted
temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden's legal representative Anatoly
Kucherena said.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69063000/jpg/_69063940_018835512-1.jpg
Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport (PHOTOS) Published
time: August 01, 2013 11:45
Edited time: August 01, 2013 14:08
Photos on link...
http://rt.com/news/snowden-entry-papers-russia-902/
Russia, Snowden, USA
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia
and is allowed to enter the country’s territory.The whistleblower has been granted
temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden's legal representative Anatoly
Kucherena said, with his words later confirmed by Russia’s Federal Migration
service.
“I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service.
They are what he needs to leave the transit zone,” he added.
Kucherena showed a photocopy of the document to the press. According to it,
Snowden is free to stay in Russia until at least July 31, 2014. His asylum status
may be extended annually upon request. With his newly-awarded legal status in
Russia, Snowden cannot be handed over to the US authorities, even if Washington
files an official request. He can now be transported to the United States only if he
agrees to go voluntarily. Snowden departed at around 15.30 Moscow time (11.30
GMT), airport sources said. His departure came some 30 minutes before his new
refugee status was officially announced. His present location has not been made
public nor will it be disclosed, Kucherena said.
“He is the most wanted person on earth and his security will be a priority,” the
attorney explained. “He will deal with personal security issues and lodging himself.
I will just consult him as his lawyer.”
Snowden eventually intends to talk to the press in Russia, but needs at least one
day of privacy, Kucherena said.
The whistleblower was unaccompanied when he left the airport in a regular taxi,
Kucherena added. However, WikiLeaks contradicted the lawyer, saying the
organization’s activist Sarah Harrison accompanied Snowden. Russia is confident
that the latest development in the Snowden case will not affect US President Barack
Obama’s upcoming visit to Moscow, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.
“We are aware of the atmosphere being created in the US over Snowden, but we
didn’t get any signals [indicating a possible cancellation of the visit] from American
authorities,” he told RIA Novosti.
Snowden, a former CIA employee and NSA contractor, came to international
prominence after leaking several classified documents detailing massive electronic
surveillance by the US government and foreign allies who collaborated with them.
Photo of Edward Snowden leaving Sheremetyevo Airport (Video still from http://www.vesti.ru)
Snowden was hiding out in a Hong Kong hotel when he first went public in May.
Amidst mounting US pressure on both Beijing and local authorities in the former-
British colony to hand the whistleblower over for prosecution, Snowden flew to
Moscow on June 23.
Moscow was initially intended as a temporary stopover on his journey, as Snowden
was believed to be headed to Ecuador via Cuba. However, he ended up getting
stranded at Sheremetyevo Airport after the US government revoked his passport.
Snowden could neither leave Russia nor enter it, forcing him to remain in the
airport’s transit zone. In July, Snowden applied for temporary asylum in Russia, a
status that would allow him to live and work in the country for one year. Kucherena
earlier said the fugitive whistleblower is considering securing permanent residency
in Russia, where he will attempt to build a life.
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1 August 2013 Last updated at 14:04
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Snowden leaves airport after getting asylum in RussiaA photocopy of the document
given to Edward Snowden, shown by lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, 1 August Lawyer
Anatoly Kucherena showed a photocopy of the document given to Mr Snowden
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69063000/jpg/_69063934_018835181-1.jpg
US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he has
been staying since June after being granted temporary asylum.He left unobserved
after receiving, his lawyer said, the necessary papers to enter Russian territory
from Sheremetyevo Airport's transit zone.The US has charged Mr Snowden with
leaking details of its electronic surveillance programmes.Russia's decision is likely
to further strain its ties with the US.
A strongly worded US reaction can be expected shortly, as the news sinks in in the
US, the BBC's Daniel Sandford reports from Moscow. Mr Snowden arrived in
Moscow on 23 June from Hong Kong, after making his revelations.The Snowden
affair has caused diplomatic ructions around the world, upsetting the United States'
close allies and traditional enemies.
'Most pursued man'
Mr Snowden left the airport around 14:00 local time (10:00 GMT), the airport press
office told the BBC.Despite the heavy presence of news organisations at the airport,
his departure was apparently not spotted by media. The lawyer, Anatoly
Kucherena, said: "His location is not being made public for security reasons since
he is the most pursued man on the planet. He himself will decide where he will go."
The whistleblowing organisation Wikileaks, which has been helping him since he
made his revelations, said in a tweet that he had been given asylum.
"Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia for a year and has now
left Moscow airport under the care of Wikileaks' Sarah Harrison," it said.
Ms Harrison is a member of the Wikileaks legal team and has been helping Mr
Snowden.
Mr Kucherena also said he had been awarded temporary asylum.
US Attorney General Eric Holder has given Moscow an assurance that Mr Snowden
will not face the death penalty
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23535524
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Snowden finally leaves Moscow airport after Russia grants him asylum in the
country for one year
The U.S. whistleblower had lacked necessary document he needed to cross into
Russia He had been kept in designated security areas in Moscow AirportTaken to
secure location after he is given a year of asylum in RussiaOfficials insist saga will
not damage country's ties with the U.S.
By Hugo Gye and Will Stewart In Moscow
PUBLISHED: 13:11, 1 August 2013 | UPDATED: 13:55, 1 August 2013
Out: Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he had been living for the past month
Edward Snowden has finally been allowed to leave the airport in Moscow where he
has been living for over a month after he received a document granting him asylum
in Russia for one year.The American fugitive wanted for leaking classified
intelligence documents stepped out of Sheremetyevo airport this afternoon after
weeks spent in legal limbo.His Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said: 'I have just
handed him the documents from the Russian Federal Migration Service. They allow
him to leave the airport.'He added: 'I have just seen him off. He has left for a
secure location. Security is a very serious matter for him.'
Snowden slipped out of the airport in a taxi without being spotted by the dozens of
reporters and photographers who have camped out in the airport for weeks.
'He is the most wanted man on planet Earth,' his lawyer said. 'What do you think
he is going to do? He has to think about his personal security. I cannot tell you
where he is going.
'I put him in a taxi 15 to 20 minutes ago and gave him his certificate on getting
refugee status in the Russian Federation. He can live wherever he wants in Russia.
It's his personal choice.'The refugee was accompanied by Sarah Harrison, a British
representative of WikiLeaks who has been staying with Snowden in the airport.
The group tweeted: 'Edward Snowden has successfully acquired refugee status in
Russia and will shortly leave the airport.'
It added: 'We would like to thank the Russian people and all those others who have
helped to protect Mr Snowden. We have won the battle - now the war.'
Gone: Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena announced that his client had been granted asylum today
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/24/article-0-1AF94C78000005DC-992_634x413.jpg
Long stay: Snowden has been in legal limbo in the airport for more than a month since arriving in Hong Kong
The 30-year-old has apparently agreed not to disclose any more classified
information as a condition of his remaining in Russia.Snowden faces living under
strict curbs imposed by the Russian security agencies even though he has been
allowed to move from his hideaway in an airport transit zone.
More...
Stripped of his rank and facing the rest of his life behind bars: Bradley Manning's
lawyers prepare him to take the stand in desperate bid to avoid 136-YEAR sentence
OJ Simpson's prison time cut after pleading with parole board that he was a 'model
inmate' - but he will be behind bars for at least four more yearsHe arrived at
Sheremetyevo from Hong Kong on June 23 but was unable to leave because the
U.S. had revoked his passport.The runaway's movements will initially be strictly
curtailed, but President Vladimir Putin has denied his intelligence services are
seeking secrets known to the former contractor for the National Security Agency.
The revelation will fuel U.S. concerns that further sensitive data is in jeopardy and
could fall into the hands of the Russian government. The White House has
been ‘seeking clarity’ about Snowden's status.
Paperwork: Kucherena announced today that the relevant documents had been
given to SnowdenExit: Airport security staff secured an area yesterday in
preparation for Snowden to leave the airport at last
Vladimir Volokh, the head of the public council of the Russian Federal Migration
Service, insisted: ‘He will only be allowed to stay in places designated by Russian
law enforcement agencies.’
Kremlin official Yuri Ushakov insisted today that the long-running saga would not
affect ties between the U.S. and Russia, saying Snowden's case was 'relatively
insignificant'.
He added: 'Our president has expressed hope many times that this will not affect
the character of our relations.'
Snowden has indicated he later hopes to secure exile in South America with offers
from Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, but this week his lawyer said he might
apply for Russian citizenship.
‘Edward also asked me to thank all the women in Russia for offering him to marry
them,’ added the lawyer. ‘He was in stitches of laughter when he heard that there
were a lot of such proposals.
‘I passed him some clothes. I noticed that each time we meet he wears one and the
same shirt.
‘So I went out and bought him some shirts and trousers so that he at least could
have a chance to change. There is no laundry or ironing service in the conditions
where he lives right now.’
Home: Snowden has been in Sheremetyevo Airport (pictured) since arriving from
Hong Kong on June 23
Dragging on: View of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, which Snowden has called
home for a month now. He nearly got out Tuesday night but his hopes were dashed
as a bureaucratic snag halted his plans
Dragging on: View of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, which Snowden called home
for a month He brought the fugitive classic Russian books by Anton Chekhov, and
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment.The novel is about the mental
anguish and moral dilemmas of a poor ex-student who kills a pawnbroker for her
cash, but Kucherena said: ‘I'm not implying he's going through a similar mental
anguish.’Russia has rejected White House calls for Snowden to be deported to the
US to face espionage charges for leaking details of the NSA's wide-ranging spying
activities targeting data and phone communication. Volokh confirmed Snowden
would ‘not be extradited to any country where his life might be in danger, because
he has applied for asylum here.’ Putin demanded that Snowden stops leaking
secrets damaging to the U.S. while he is in Russia.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382495/Snowden-finally-leaves-Moscow-airport-Russia-grants-asylum-country-year.html#ixzz2aj3zwwMd
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