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Snowden seeks asylum in more than 20 countries, including Ireland Photo: Inside Sheremetyevo Airport Edward Snowden has reportedly applied for asylum in 21 countries – including Ireland – in addition to his previous requests to Russia, Ecuador and Iceland. WikiLeaks said today that its legal advisor Sarah Harrison submitted a number of requests for asylum and asylum assistance on behalf of former CIA and NSA contractor on 30 June. The requests were delivered to an official at the Russian consulate at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow late on Sunday evening, WikiLeaks said. It added that the documents outline the risks of persecution Snowden faces in the United States and have started to be delivered by the Russian consulate to the relevant embassies in Moscow. Apart from Ireland, the requests were made to Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Venezuela. A number of the European countries, including Ireland, have said that asylum applications can only be made in person in the state itself. It’s understood that Snowden’s application to Russia has since been withdrawn after the country said he would have to give up his anti-American activity. Snowden, who has been in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for over a week, has been charged in the US with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence. Last night, WikiLeaks posted a statement on its website attributed to Snowden. In it, he said he left Hong Kong a week ago after it became clear that his “freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth”. "On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic ‘wheeling and dealing’ over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions. “This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.” Snowden said the US had been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum for decades. “Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the US in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum. “In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be. “I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.” Image: Dmitry Berkut / Shutterstock
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Snowden zatražio azil u 21 zemlji Edward Snowden zatražio je azil u 21 zemlji, među kojima u Rusiji, Islandu, Ekvadoru, Kubi, Venezueli, Brazilu, Indiji, Kini, Njemačkoj i Francuskoj Te zahtjeve je u Snowdenovo ime predala Sarah Harrison, britanska djelatnica WikiLeaksa koja je pratila Snowdena 23. lipnja na putu od Hong Konga do Moskve. Zahtjevi su predani ruskom dužnosniku u zračnoj luci Šeremetjevo u ponedjeljak kasno navečer, prema priopćenju s WikiLeaksa. Dokumenti naglašavaju opasnosti progona za Snowdena u Sjedinjenim Državama i ruski dužnosnici su ih počeli dijeliti nadležnim veleposlanstvima u Moskvi, navodi se u priopćenju. Ostale zemlje kojima je Snowden uputio zahtjev za azil su Austrija, Bolivija, Finska, Italija, Irska, Nizozemska, Nikaragva, Norveška, Poljska, Španjolska i Švicarska, prema istom izvoru. Snowden je u ponedjeljak optužio američkog predsjednika Baracka Obamu da vrši pritisak na čelnike zemalja od kojih je tražio zaštitu. On je posebice optužio Obamu da je naredio potpredsjedniku Joeu Bidenu da vrši pritisak na čelnike zemalja od kojih je tražio politički azil, posebice Ekvadora, s namjerom da postigne njegovo izručenje. U isto vrijeme je objavljeno Snowdenovo pismo predsjedniku Ekvadora Rafaelu Correi u kojem mu zahvaljuje na podršci. Predsjednik Correa je u razgovoru u ponedjeljak potvrdio da je Joe Biden od njega tijekom vikenda tražio da odbije Snowdenou molbu azila.