Snowden has been trapped in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport since then, hoping to fly on to Ecuador to seek asylum. Washington has revoked his US passport, and US Vice President Joe Biden called Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa urging him not to grant Snowden asylum. Correa then rescinded a travel document granted to Snowden at the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Snowden’s statement continues, “On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic ‘wheeling and dealing’ over my case. Yet it is now 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 ... Sadly, this right [to asylum], laid out and voted for by the US in Article 14 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country.”
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:34:20 +0000
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