Russia Offers Asylum for Whistleblower Snowden

Local Editor

Russia has offered to consider an asylum request from the ex-CIA worker American whistleblower Edward Snowden.

On this note, the Russian president's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, "We will take action based on what actually happens. If we receive such a request, it will be considered."

Snowden has said that "my predisposition is to seek asylum in a country with shared values." He expressed that Hong Kong is a good place for now, since there is a lot more freedom there than in mainland China.

Snowden leaked covert documents from the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI that are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets.

The program, code-named PRISM, was leaked by Snowden to American The Washington Post and The Guardian UK dailies.

Source: News Agency, edited by website team