Monday 12 September 2016
Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and others will launch a campaign asking President Obama to pardon internet privacy advocate and notorious whistleblower, Edward Snowden. Snowden, the notorious NSA-contractor-turned-privacy-advocate has been living in Russia since June 2013 after being granted temporary asylum. Snowden’s requests for renewal have been granted each year since. Now living in an undisclosed location in Russia, Snowden is seeking permanent asylum elsewhere while trying to remain out of reach of the US government — where he’d face trial under the espionage act should he return. Oddly enough — or maybe not — the…
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