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Ecuador denies giving Snowden a travel document: report [View all]
Ecuador denies giving Snowden a travel document: report
(Reuters) - Ecuador has not given a temporary travel document to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the South American nation's acting foreign minister told local media on Wednesday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking secret information about a spying program, had received a refugee document from Ecuador.
"That's not true. There is no passport, no document that has been given (to Snowden) by any Ecuadorean consulate," Galo Galarza said in comments posted on the website of Ecuador's Teleamazonas, a private television station.
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Snowden fled the United States to Hong Kong this month after leaking details of secret U.S. government surveillance programs, then flew on to Moscow...He remains in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and is seeking safe passage to Ecuador, which has said it will consider his appeal for political asylum. Patino said earlier on Wednesday that the process of reviewing the request could take weeks.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/26/us-usa-security-snowden-ecuador-idUSBRE95P1FC20130626
(Reuters) - Ecuador has not given a temporary travel document to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the South American nation's acting foreign minister told local media on Wednesday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking secret information about a spying program, had received a refugee document from Ecuador.
"That's not true. There is no passport, no document that has been given (to Snowden) by any Ecuadorean consulate," Galo Galarza said in comments posted on the website of Ecuador's Teleamazonas, a private television station.
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Snowden fled the United States to Hong Kong this month after leaking details of secret U.S. government surveillance programs, then flew on to Moscow...He remains in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and is seeking safe passage to Ecuador, which has said it will consider his appeal for political asylum. Patino said earlier on Wednesday that the process of reviewing the request could take weeks.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/26/us-usa-security-snowden-ecuador-idUSBRE95P1FC20130626
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon says his legal team won’t represent NSA leaker Edward Snowden
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023101737
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