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Pirate
Party Norway: - Snowden Passed Through Norway to Iceland
Organization Pirate Party Norway claims that spy accused Edward Snowden landed at Oslo Gardermon airport last night
Organization Pirate Party Norway claims that spy accused Edward Snowden landed at Oslo Gardermon airport last night
24
June, 2013
The
party leader Øystein Jakobsen would meet with Snowden when he landed
on Sunday evening, according to the party’s twitter account.
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We have received information from our international umbrella party,
the Pirate Parties International (PPI), that he will stop in Norway.
The reason is that this is probably the quickest and easiest way to
fly to Iceland, says Tale Østrådal from the Pirate Party to TV2
Norway
Øsrådal
also said that Pirate Party in Iceland confirmed Snowden’s stay in
the country. Iceland has become a haven for people like him, almost a
"Pirate Island," says Østrådal.
The
paty leader Jakobsen, on the other hand, thanked the former agent. He
has sacrificed his whole life for something he felt wrong. What he
has done is exemplary. He has sacrificed a life of freedom to inform
the public about a serious infringement, says Jakobsen to TV 2
According
to Oslo Gardermoen Airport websites, a flight from Moscow arrived in
Oslo at 19.25 on Sunday evening. Bu the press officer of the airport
did not give any information aboout the details.
Also,
police at the airport told TV 2 that they do not have any information
about the case.
About
Snowden
Edward
Joseph Snowden is a former technical contractor and Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who worked for Booz Allen
Hamilton, a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), before
leaking details of classified NSA mass surveillance programs to the
press. Snowden shared classified material on a variety of top-secret
NSA programs, including the interception of US telephone metadata and
the PRISM surveillance program, primarily with Glenn Greenwald of The
Guardian, which published a series of exposés based on Snowden’s
disclosures in June 2013. Snowden said the leaks were an effort "to
inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that
which is done against them."
Snowden’s
alleged leaks are said to rank among the most significant breaches in
the history of the NSA. Matthew M. Aid, an intelligence historian in
Washington, said disclosures linked to Snowden have "confirmed
longstanding suspicions that NSA’s surveillance in this country is
far more intrusive than we knew." On June 14, 2013, US federal
prosecutors filed a sealed complaint, made public on June 21,[8][9]
charging Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorized
communication of national defense information and willful
communication of classified intelligence with an unauthorized person;
the latter two allegations are under the Espionage Act.
About
Pirate Party Norway
Piratpartiet
Norge (Norwegian for The Pirate Party of Norway) is a Norwegian
political party which was founded on the 16. December 2012. The basic
principles are "full transparency in the state management,
privacy on the internet, as well as better use of IT and technology
to make a better democracy." On December 17. 2012 they announced
that the 5000 signatures required to take part in the next general
election had been received. The party is a part of the Pirate Parties
International
Edward
Snowden and Wikileaks' Sarah Harrison who is accompanying him are
"safe and healthy," Julian Assange said during a conference
call broadcast by RT.
"The
current status of Mr Snowden and Harrison is that both are healthy
and safe and they are in contact with their legal teams," the
WikiLeaks founder said. "I cannot give further information as to
their whereabouts," Assange added.
"Snowden
is not a traitor, he is not a spy he is a whistleblower who told the
public the important truth," he pointed out.
Snowden
made other asylum bids: WikiLeaks
Apart
from seeking asylum in Ecuador and Iceland leaker Edward Snowden also
approached other countries, WikiLeaks says.
SBS,
25
June, 2013
US
leaker Edward Snowden may have approached other countries for asylum
aside from Ecuador and Iceland, WikiLeaks says.
At
the same time the organisation's founder, Julian Assange, on Monday
insisted any country that helped Snowden should be applauded
regardless of its human rights record.
The
Australian was asked by a BBC reporter about the "obvious irony"
of seeking assistance from China, Russia and Ecuador given they
didn't share WikiLeaks' values of privacy and freedom of speech.
"I
simply do not see the irony," Assange told a teleconference from
the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
"Any
country which assists in upholding his rights must be applauded."
Assange
said it was a separate issue if countries didn't share the same
values as WikiLeaks.
He
turned the critique on its head by stating: "We do not criticise
people for seeking refugee status in the United States despite its
use of torture, drone strikes ... executive kill lists and so on."
"No
one is suggesting countries like Ecuador are engaged in those types
of abuses," Assange said.
WikiLeaks
spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson on Monday reiterated Snowden had
requested asylum from Iceland, where he is from, and Ecuador before
adding, "But at this point we won't discuss other approaches
that were made."
The
whistleblowing organisation has funded Snowden's flight from Hong
Kong to Moscow paying for his flight, accommodation and legal fees.
Ecuadorean
Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino says Quito is weighing up Snowden's
asylum bid.
Speaking
to reporters in Vietnam the minister defended Snowden's actions
saying they "shed light" on US practices.
Assange's
US attorney Michael Ratner told Monday's teleconference that
whistleblowers were protected under the refugee convention.
"The
refugee convention protects people who are being persecuted for
political opinion (and) whistleblower activities come within that,"
he said.
"Whistleblowing
and the protection under the refugee convention trumps any efforts to
extradite Edward Snowden."
Mr
Ratner said the former intelligence analyst could have also sought
asylum in "big countries" capable of standing up to the US
such as China or Russia.
Alternative
"independent" options in South America included Argentina,
Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela or Ecuador, the attorney said.
The
White House has warned the decision to allow Snowden to leave Hong
Kong "unquestionably" harmed efforts to build trust in
US-China relations.
"This
was a deliberate choice by the (Chinese) government to release a
fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant, and that decision
unquestionably has a negative impact on the relationship," White
House spokesman Jay Carney said.
But
Mr Ratner argued the US is flaunting the principal of
"non-interference" when it came to people applying for
political asylum.
"There's
no legal basis for that," he said.
"Edward
Snowden is not a fugitive and there's no (valid) arrest warrant."
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