[Infowarrior] - Snowden can stay in Russia

[Richard Forno]

Edward Snowden given permission to stay in Russia for three more years

NSA whistleblower's lawyer tells Russian news agency Snowden has been granted three-year residency after year's asylum ran out


	• Agencies in Moscow
	• theguardian.com, Thursday 7 August 2014 06.53 EDT

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/edward-snowden-permission-stay-in-russia-three-years

Edward Snowden has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said on Thursday.

The NSA whistleblower was last year granted temporary asylum for one year, which ran out on 1 August.

His lawyer, Analtoly Kucherena, was quoted by Russian news agencies on Thursday as saying Snowden had been granted residency for three more years.

Snowden arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on a flight from Hong Kong on 23 June 2013 after identifying himself as the source of the Guardian's revelations on the US security agency's clandestine internet surveillance.

He spent five weeks in the transit area after the US cancelled his travel documents before being given asylum in Russia.
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