Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Snowden Seeking Asylum in Iceland

Edward Snowden is seeking political asylum in Iceland. In a column in Icelandic daily newspaper Frettabladid, WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson wrote that a middleman had approached him on behalf of Snowden. In the past Snowden has expressed fear that Iceland would cave to pressure from the US. "Iceland could be pushed harder, quicker, before the public could have a chance to make their feelings known, and I would not put that past the current U.S. administration," Snowden said in an online forum in the Guardian on Monday.
The Icelandic government has declined to comment on the alleged request. "The main stipulation for seeking asylum in Iceland would be that the person must be in Iceland to start the process," said Johannes Tomasson, the chief spokesman for Iceland's Ministry of Interior in Reykjavik. "That would be the ground rule No. 1."

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