Edward Snowden has made a public appeal for Switzerland to grant him asylum.
The fugitive former US spy agency contractor told an audience in Geneva that he would like to live in the Swiss city, where he once worked undercover for the CIA.
He spoke from Moscow via video link after a viewing of “Citizenfour”, an Oscar-winning documentary about his case.
“I would love to return to Switzerland, some of my favourite memories are from Geneva. It’s a wonderful place,” he told the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights on Thursday night.
“I do think Switzerland would be a sort of great political option because it has a history of neutrality,” he said, praising its multicultural diversity and human rights record.
Snowden, wanted by Washington for leaking details of US mass surveillance programmes, said he had appealed to 21 countries, “the majority in central and Western Europe”, for asylum after the US cancelled his passport and he was stopped from going to Ecuador.
Read more: Edward Snowden makes Switzerland asylum appeal | euronews, world news
The fugitive former US spy agency contractor told an audience in Geneva that he would like to live in the Swiss city, where he once worked undercover for the CIA.
He spoke from Moscow via video link after a viewing of “Citizenfour”, an Oscar-winning documentary about his case.
“I would love to return to Switzerland, some of my favourite memories are from Geneva. It’s a wonderful place,” he told the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights on Thursday night.
“I do think Switzerland would be a sort of great political option because it has a history of neutrality,” he said, praising its multicultural diversity and human rights record.
Snowden, wanted by Washington for leaking details of US mass surveillance programmes, said he had appealed to 21 countries, “the majority in central and Western Europe”, for asylum after the US cancelled his passport and he was stopped from going to Ecuador.
Read more: Edward Snowden makes Switzerland asylum appeal | euronews, world news
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