WikiLeaks and Assange lawyer decides not to represent Snowden, claims his “whereabouts are unknown

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6. Statement posted on Wikileaks site confirms

From wikileaks:

http://wikileaks.org/Further-Statement-From-Baltasar.html

Further Statement From Baltasar Garzón
Wednesday June 26, 15:00 BST

Madrid, 25 June 2013

PRESS RELEASE FOR MEDIA AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES

This serves to state that the Law firm ILOCAD has decided not to represent Mr. Snowden, whose whereabouts are unknown. We continue to represent Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks as senior legal counsel in the defence of the fundamental right to freedom of information and expression. In this vein, we are satisfied with the recently approved draft resolution by the Committee Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. It states that those who disclose criminal acts in the public interest should be protected from retaliation and persecution from those who commit them.

Baltasar Garzón