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The Globe and Mail reports that Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says the fugitive former US spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government’s mass surveillance programs was working with American and German lawyers to return home. “I won’t keep it secret that he … wants to return back home. And we are doing everything possible now to solve this issue. There is a group of U.S. lawyers, there is also a group of German lawyers and I’m dealing with it on the Russian side.” Kucherena added that Snowden is ready to return to the States, but on the condition that he is given a guarantee of a legal and impartial trial. The lawyer said Snowden had so far only received a guarantee from the US Attorney General that he will not face the death penalty. Kucherena says that Snowden is able to travel outside Russia since he has a three-year Russian residency permit, but "I suspect that as soon as he leaves Russia, he will be taken to the US embassy."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Wednesday March 04 2015, @04:32PM
Precisely!
It can only work if the backlash is harsh enough and will deliver if they break any deal.
As for courts. The law is written by the opponent, the people handling the law is in the pocket of the opponent, public opinion is manufactured by media companies taking direction from your opponent, random acts can be executed by the opponent but still be blamed on random madman etc. It's all stacked against a single individual.