Snowden Seeking Legal Help in Hong Kong, Oriental Daily Reports

[steve2470]

Source: Bloomberg

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old U.S. contractor who says he leaked details of an electronic surveillance program, may be seeking legal help in Hong Kong after checking out of a hotel in the Chinese city on Monday.

Snowden is trying to contact Hong Kong-based human rights organizations and lawyers for help, the Oriental Daily News, a Hong Kong-based Chinese language newspaper, reported today, without naming its sources. Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor has not received any message from Snowden, the paper said.

He left the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district at lunchtime on Monday, according to the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper yesterday, which reported that he is thought to be in a safe house. The city’s immigration department has no record of him departing, according to another Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, which cited unidentified sources.

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, currently on an official visit to New York, declined yesterday to answer questions by reporters about how his government would handle the case.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/snowden-seeking-legal-help-in-hong-kong-oriental-daily-reports.html

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Article link: http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20130612/00174_001.html

The link above, I think, is the translated version of the Oriental Daily News story. I say I think, because I can't speak Chinese.

[2bornot2b]

1. Pretty good translation

Google translate does a good job. There are a few local slangs that it missed and some sentence constructions are stilted. But the overall gist is there.

[steve2470]

2. thanks for your input nt