3 hours agoCanada gives asylum to four people hiding the long-suffered US person
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(5 years ago)Canada has given asylum rights to four people who had been hiding from the former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, in their small residences in Hong Kong, when he was on the run after stealing a bunch of classified documents. The four persons who gained asylum arrived in Toronto to [...]
The four persons who won asylum arrived in Toronto on Tuesday and are expected to be sent to Montreal “to start a new life”, the declaration of the non-profit refugee organisation “For the Refugees” says.
This nongovernmental organization had supported two other people suspected of the same work in 2019 and has continued to lobby with the Canadian government to take defense of others, who it said face persecution, writes The Guardian, broadcast The Express.
From Sri-Lanka, Kellapatha, Nonis and their two children were endangered by deportation, since their initial application for refugee status had been rejected.
“We are happy with the final score ʹ for at least six of the seven persons, said the chairman of the organisation that dealt with these people, Marc-Andre Seguin.
In 2013, Snowden published thousands of classified documents regarding U.S. surveys following the 11 September attacks.
He had escaped and had gone to Hong Kong. The refugee group had agreed to accommodate him for about two weeks before Snowden traveled to Russia, where he now lives.
