- Gigaom, Thursday, August 7, 2014 2:55 PM
Russia has granted Edward Snowden a 3-year residency permit, after his temporary asylum expired. That means the NSA leaker can stay in Russia, where he has been stranded since the
U.S. cancelled his passport a year ago while he was in transit to Latin America. Activists across Europe have been pleading for their countries to let Snowden in to give testimony about mass surveillance in person, but not one government has
agreed to do so, even those that have launched official
inquiries over his revelations.
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