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European Parliament Urges Protection for Edward Snowden

posted by martyb on Sunday November 01 2015, @05:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the nice-gesture dept.

Koen writes:

BRUSSELS — The European Parliament narrowly (285 vs 281 votes) adopted a nonbinding but nonetheless forceful resolution on Thursday urging the 28 nations of the European Union to recognize Edward J. Snowden as a "whistle-blower and international human rights defender" and to shield him from prosecution.

On Twitter, Mr. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents about electronic surveillance by the American government, called the vote a "game-changer."

But the resolution has no legal force and limited practical effect for Mr. Snowden, who is living in Russia on a three-year residency permit. Whether to grant Mr. Snowden asylum remains a decision for the individual European governments, and thus far, none have done so.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by gnuman on Sunday November 01 2015, @08:59PM

    by gnuman (5013) on Sunday November 01 2015, @08:59PM (#257256)

    Hmmm, Really?

    The EU seems to be genuinely pissed, at several different levels, at the US spying, and the data mining by NSA/CIA of European Citizens.

    There, fixed that for you.

    They are pissed alright. They are pissed that such information is public so they have to be posers. In reality, they grounded a presidential plane and illegally searched it because they thought Snowden might be onboard.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident [wikipedia.org]

    See that red on their map there? That's how pissed they were *at* Snowden.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday November 01 2015, @11:08PM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday November 01 2015, @11:08PM (#257294) Journal

    Would that happen again today?
    Its anybody's guess.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2015, @10:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2015, @10:57AM (#257431)

    You fail to differentiate between the EU leaders on one hand, and the people, including the elected members of the EU parliament, on the other hand. Indeed, the leaders do seem to be deeply beholden to the USA leadership, which the people and the MEPs don't appreciate at all. Why the former is anyone's guess. For sure, some countries implement a similar practice (e.g. UK, France), which also isn't appreciated.