Protesters supporting Edward Snowden. Photograph by Mike Herbst
Nicaragua and Venezuela have indicated that they could offer political asylum to NSA whistleblower and US fugitive Edward Snowden.
President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro said that his country would offer Snowden political asylum, the first country to make such an offer.
The presidents of both Nicaragua and Venezuela have indicated their countries could offer political asylum to US fugitive Edward Snowden. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has said that his country would also do so “if circumstances permit”.
These offers come after Snowden applied to a further six countries for asylum on Friday, after failing to find any firm offers from his the previous 21 locations to which he applied.
With a firm offer on the table, the problem for Snowden may now be reaching the country, with the US applying significant pressure on all other nations around the world not to offer him passage through their airspace. European countries have already shown that any plane he would be carried on would not be allowed to fly over European airspace, after rerouting the aeroplane of the Bolivian president earlier this week on suspicion he may be harbouring Snowden.
Snowden currently remains in the transit area of Moscow airport.
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Hi,
Descrier, by definision “To discover by careful observation or scrutiny” Mr.Snowden is not a criminal, a young man who sees wrong in the
world as many politicians of today being the children of 1968.