Probable hoax - twitter: Snowden applies for Nicaragua asylum

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LINCOLN ‏@linci_nam 2m

RT @Phil_Mos: Snowden should apply for asylum in Namibia “@RT_com: #Snowden applies for Nicaragua asylum, as Venezuela deadline looms
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Douglas McNabb Douglas McNabb ‏@douglasmcnabb 2m

#Snowden applies for Nicaragua asylum, as Venezuela deadline looms http://on.rt.com/thqhm7 ”

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works for me: http://rt.com/news/snowden-asylum-venezuela-nicaragua-801/



(http://rt.com/news/snowden-asylum-venezuela-nicaragua-801/)Nicaragua has accepted NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s asylum application at its Moscow embassy, saying it will be reviewed “at the highest level”. Meanwhile, Venezuela has given the fugitive a Monday deadline to decide if he travels there.
“Nicaragua is an open country that respects the right to asylum,” the Central American country’s ambassador to Russia Luis Alberto Molina Cuadra told RT.

“It is possible that Snowden’s application is already being looked at. It will be considered at the highest level, by the top politicians of our country.”

On Friday Nicaragua’s Sandinista President Daniel Ortega declared that he would receive the US citizen “with pleasure”, if “circumstances permit”.

Snowden’s initial application letter, with the dateline “Moscow, June 30” has also been revealed.

In it the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor says “…it is unlikely I would receive a fair trial or proper treatment [in the US]” and claims an imminent return to his country of birth could result in the “possibility of life in prison or even death.”


(http://rt.com/news/snowden-asylum-venezuela-nicaragua-801/)

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Luis Carlos Vélez ‏@lcvelez 2m

#breakingnews - #Snowden requests asylum to #Venezuela, President @NicolasMaduro says

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works for me: http://rt.com/news/snowden-asylum-venezuela-nicaragua-801/



(http://rt.com/news/snowden-asylum-venezuela-nicaragua-801/)

On Monday, Uruguay’s first lady, Senator Lucia Topolansky, said that her country would consider giving asylum to Snowden, RIA Novosti reports. “This issue should be considered, once a request is filed,” Topolansky said. “Uruguay has traditionally been a country that grants asylum. I think that every country is free to shelter whomever it wants."

“Every country has its own rules and makes its own decisions, and no one is allowed to interfere with the sovereignty of other nations,” she added.

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