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Snowden about to step forward, live.

89 points| Shalle | 12 years ago |aftonbladet.se | reply

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[+] paddy_m|12 years ago|reply
Whistle Blower Edward Snowden has convened a meeting with representatives of several human rights organsiationer. The meeting is expected to take place today at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.

- I can confirm that the meeting will take place at 16:00 local time at the airport. We will not increase security at the airport ahead of the meeting, says Roman Genis head of the press office at Sheremetyevo Airport.

Already around 13:00 Swedish time flocked to reporters at the airport to talk to the representatives invited by Snowden. For the first time since Snowden's revelations reached the press caught him now in view of Human Rights Watch's photographer. To the west the picture is Sarah Harrison from WikiLeaks. Great interest

A number of journalists have gathered at the airport while waiting for the whistle-blower's performance. The meeting, taking place right now behind closed doors.

- Snowden's revelations have shown the problem. He has not identified any people but only highlights the major problems, said Sergei Nikitin, head of Amnesty International Russian to AP from the airport.

Snowden will have sent invitations to representatives of Amnesty International in Russia, Transparency International, Human Rights Watch and the UN in Russia. Although Russian parliamentarians and lawyers have accepted Snowden's invitation and is now at the airport in Moscow. "Campaign Against Me"

In inbjudningsbreven to Edward Snowden according to the Guardian have written that the United States is leading a campaign against him, trying to block his right to seek and obtain asylum in other countries. Snowden thank the letter also those who have offered to help him.

The former CIA employee Edward Snowden fled the United States when he revealed the extent of its supervision. He has lived on the transit portion of the airport in Moscow since June 23. Snowden has applied for asylum in more than 20 countries. Several South American countries have offered him protection, but it has proved problematic to leave the airport. Edward Snowden has been stripped of his U.S. passport and without it he can not buy a new ticket. Last week also forced the Bolivian president Evo Morales stopover in Austria when there was suspicion that Snowden was aboard his aircraft.

[+] _delirium|12 years ago|reply
> In inbjudningsbreven to Edward Snowden according to the Guardian have written that the United States is leading a campaign against him, trying to block his right to seek and obtain asylum in other countries.

Improved: According to the Guardian, Snowden wrote in his invitation letter to the organizations that the United States is leading a campaign against him, trying to block his right to seek and obtain asylum in other countries.

[+] jbrooksuk|12 years ago|reply
Cheers for the translation, saves me from having to use my rough knowledge of Swedish. Couple of grammatical errors, but it makes sense.
[+] djweber|12 years ago|reply
I appreciate Edward Snowden for having the courage to do what he did and what he did, but I feel like there is a disproportionate amount of coverage about him versus what he blew the whistle on.
[+] antocv|12 years ago|reply
He is a very well trained CIA man - the picture released is him with two woman at his side. Well played. Nice to see.
[+] unknown|12 years ago|reply

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[+] jasonkolb|12 years ago|reply
What do two women have to do with anything? Your comment confused me...
[+] quchen|12 years ago|reply
For the record, local time in Moscow is UTC+4; at the time of writing this comment, that is about 18 o'clock.
[+] sk00byd00|12 years ago|reply
Isn't the convention to only use the phrase o'clock when using a 12 hour notation?
[+] abarakadabara|12 years ago|reply
What does this have to do with hacking/technology?
[+] Phlarp|12 years ago|reply
I'm not really sure, maybe we should ask duckduckgo if anything Snowden has released affected them?
[+] samstave|12 years ago|reply
I think your HN card must now be turned in. If you don't think that Snowden has anything to do with technology -- then maybe you don't even know what the definition of technology is.

This has everything to do with technology.

[+] rfnslyr|12 years ago|reply
The media surrounding the U.S. government spying on its citizens illegally supersedes any intangible enforcement by means of loosely written guidelines by HN.