Edward Snowden asylum: countries approached and their responses

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The NSA whistleblower has made 21 applications for asylum worldwide as he flees the US – with little success
Haroon Siddique
Tuesday 2 July 2013 07.02 EDT

... Austria: No ...
Ecuador: No ...
Finland: No ...
India: No ...
Ireland: No ...
Norway: No ...
Poland: No ...
Spain: No ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/edward-snowden-nsa-asylum-application-list-countries

[struggle4progress]

1. Edward Snowden expands asylum requests to 21 nations, but gets no immediate takers

Updated at 6:05 a.m. Eastern

WASHINGTON National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, believed to be in legal limbo in the Moscow airport, expanded his requests for asylum to 21 countries, including China and 13 European nations, according to WikiLeaks, but his options seemed to be narrowing on Tuesday.

WikiLeaks legal adviser Sarah Harrison delivered the requests for asylum to an official at the Russian consulate at the Moscow airport on Sunday, according to the website. WikiLeaks said some of the requests had already been delivered to the appropriate embassies ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57591909/edward-snowden-expands-asylum-requests-to-21-nations-but-gets-no-immediate-takers/

[DCBob]

2. Maybe NK.

He might not like the uniform though.

[Thinkingabout]

3. His market skills has gone south, has been thief, where is the cause now.

They sure are not getting him a new home.

[Democracyinkind]

4. He hasn't thought this through.. He claims to have applied in Switzerland,

and that simply can't be true. We've eliminated country-of-origin asylum through embassies in 2009. And he is not in imminent danger of being killed so he can't get through the loophole.

Plus we'd throw him in jail for his illegal stint in Geneva...

[randome]

5. You forgot Wikileaks!

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6. President Assange grants Snowden asylum in WikiLeaks, unilaterally, as it were

Snowden's phalanx of Wikileaks Attorneys approve the measure after long consultation with their client at the Sheremetyevo Orange Julius.

[randome]

7. Snowden is Valentine Michael Smith.

Everyone wants him but he's too hot to handle.

Do you grok?

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[Renew Deal]

8. Has he considered Yemen?

[Laelth]

9. More truth than we want to admit.

Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, said Snowden "deserves the world's protection".

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"We think this young person has done something very important for humanity, has done a favour to humanity, has spoken great truths to deconstruct a world … that is controlled by an imperialist American elite," he said.

-Laelth