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(19,429 posts) Sun Jun 23, 2013, 04:05 PM Jun 2013

Snowden Asks Ecuador for Asylum – Foreign Minister

“The government of Ecuador has received an asylum request from Edward J. Snowden,” Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño Aroca wrote on his Twitter page.

Snowden, 30, left Hong Kong on Sunday, a day after the United States formally requested his extradition. A passenger who was on an Aeroflot flight that Snowden is believed to have taken to Moscow told RIA Novosti that Snowden had gotten into a car with diplomatic plates on the tarmac at Sheremetyevo Airport.

However, media reports cited airport officials as saying that Snowden would not be allowed to leave the premises because he did not have a Russian visa and would therefore only be able to fly to a third destination.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130623/181829303/Snowden-Asks-Ecuador-for-Asylum--Foreign-Minister.html

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