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This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency in Hong Kong.- AP |
The Interfax news agency reported those invited included representatives of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Transparency International as well as several prominent lawyers working in Moscow.
Prominent Moscow lawyer Genrikh Padva confirmed to AFP that he had received an invitation for a meeting at the airport Friday afternoon.
“We received such a letter from him and the Moscow airport telephoned as well,” he said, adding he did not believe he would have time to attend.
Sergei Nikitin of the Moscow branch of Amnesty International said the group received an email inviting his group and said “we are planning to go.” Elena Panfilova of Transparency International said the “somewhat unexpected” invitation was being discussed.
Panfilova said the email had come from an apparently secure email address in Snowden’s name.
A source at Sheremetyevo airport where the fugitive has spent the last three weeks told Interfax earlier that the former intelligence employee wanted to make an announcement to the activists and lawyers.
“He wants to express his opinion about the manic campaign of the persecution against him unleashed by the United States which means that passengers on flights to Latin America are in danger,” the source told the agency.
The source did not give further details but leftist Latin American states such as Venezuela and Ecuador are seen as the most likely destination for Snowden to seek asylum.
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