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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, agencies are reporting on Tuesday.
Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena met with Snowden in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where he gave him legal advice.
Snowden “reached the conclusion that he needs to write an application for temporary asylum, and this procedure has just been done,” said Kucherena.
CNN reports:
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Snowden’s application said he needed the asylum because “he faces persecution by the U.S. government and he fears for his life and safety, fears that he could be subjected to torture and capital punishment,” Kucherena told Rossiya 24 television.
A Federal Migration Service spokesperson said that Snowden’s application would be reviewed within three months, RT reports. If approved, the temporary asylum would allow Snowden to be in Russia for a year, with the option of renewing the asylum every year.
A spokesperson for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said that the decision to grant the asylum rests not with the president but with the Federal Migration Service.
Democracy Now! reported Tuesday that
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While Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia have offered to grant Snowden asylum, the whistleblower remains stuck in the Moscow airport because he lacks asylum documents, and the U.S. revoked his passport.
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