Norway's Supreme Court refuses to grant Snowden safe travel

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Norway's Supreme Court refuses to grant Snowden safe travel

Updated 11:46 am, Friday, November 25, 2016


STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norway's Supreme Court has rejected Edward Snowden's request for a legal guarantee that would allow him to collect an award in the Scandinavian country without risk of being extradited to the United States.

In its ruling Friday, the Supreme Court upheld decisions by lower courts that also refused the request.

An Oslo law firm filed the lawsuit in April on behalf of the former National Security Agency contractor and the Norwegian chapter of the free speech and literary organization PEN, which had invited Snowden to receive its Ossietzky Prize.

Snowden, who is currently in Russia, faces charges in the U.S. that could land him in prison for up to 30 years for leaking to journalists details of a secret U.S. eavesdropping program.


Norway's Supreme Court refuses to grant Snowden safe travel

Updated 11:46 am, Friday, November 25, 2016


STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norway's Supreme Court has rejected Edward Snowden's request for a legal guarantee that would allow him to collect an award in the Scandinavian country without risk of being extradited to the United States.

In its ruling Friday, the Supreme Court upheld decisions by lower courts that also refused the request.

An Oslo law firm filed the lawsuit in April on behalf of the former National Security Agency contractor and the Norwegian chapter of the free speech and literary organization PEN, which had invited Snowden to receive its Ossietzky Prize.

Snowden, who is currently in Russia, faces charges in the U.S. that could land him in prison for up to 30 years for leaking to journalists details of a secret U.S. eavesdropping program.




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[MADem]

1. One has to wonder if their government has information that leads them to

believe Snowden has been in Putin's employ since before he relocated to Mother Russia....

[cstanleytech]

2. I think he fishing to see if he could use it as a jumping off point to flee somewhere else

because I kinda doubt he is getting the kind of treatment in Russia that he was counting on.

[Loki]

3. I hope he rots in the Ecuadorian embassy.

[christx30]

4. That's Assange.

Snowden is in Russia.

[Stryst]

5. Your name is Loki

But you hope someone is punished for life for pointing out the hypocrisies about our security state, that transparency is absolutely polarized and there's a gross indifference to international law and the sovereignty of our allies? But you call yourself Loki.

[Loki]

6. Some names are just names.

I guess you didn't know my cat.