Norway's Supreme Court refuses to grant Snowden safe travel
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.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Norway-s-Supreme-Court-refuses-to-grant-Snowden-10635867.php
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MADem
(135,425 posts)believe Snowden has been in Putin's employ since before he relocated to Mother Russia....
cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)because I kinda doubt he is getting the kind of treatment in Russia that he was counting on.
Loki
(3,825 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)Snowden is in Russia.
Stryst
(714 posts)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
(3,825 posts)I guess you didn't know my cat.