Snowden's Icelandic citizenship request stuck until September

July 05, 2013

Several members of the Icelandic Parliament introduced a bill Thursday that seeks to grant Icelandic citizenship to U.S. National Security Agency document leaker Edward Snowden, but the bill won't be discussed until September. On Thursday, Snowden formally filed a request for citizenship to the Icelandic Parliament, according to Birgitta Jónsdóttir, member of the Icelandic Parliament for the Icelandic Pirate Party. Snowden, who disclosed secret information about the data collection programs of the NSA, had his passport revoked by the U.S. government and is believed to be in the transit area of the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow since flying there from Hong Kong almost two weeks ago. With assistance from a legal advisor to WikiLeaks, Snowden has requested political asylum from more than 20 countries, including Iceland, but none of the requests have been granted so far. Some countries have already rejected the requests on different grounds, including the fact that their laws require asylum requests to be made on their soil. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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