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Klokkenluider Edward Snowden hoeft niet te rekenen op asiel in Duitsland. Prominenten hadden de regering opgeroepen de Amerikaan opvang aan te bieden, maar Berlijn liet maandag weten daar niets voor te voelen. Dat meldden Duitse media maandag. Lees hier het verhaal in de Telegraaf:  http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/22030240/__Snowden_geen_asiel_Duitsland__.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitter-boven   Maar heeft hij niet al asiel in Rusland of was dat maar voor 1 jaar? Veilig derde land en dergelijke...... In verband met geldwolven die denken geld te kunnen claimen op krantenartikelen die op een blog als deze worden geplaatst maar na meestal een dag voor de krantenlezers aan leeswaardigheid hebben ingeboet terwijl wij vreemdelingenrecht specialisten ze soms wel nog jaren gebruiken om er een kopie van te maken voor een zaak ga ik over tot het plaatsen van alleen het eerste stukje. Ja ik weet het: de kans dat u doorklikt is g...

It should be made clear that Russia has no legal, political or moral duty to turn Snowden over to American authorities. Last Modified: 05 Aug 2013 13:53 Richard Falk Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. ...

If you read the tabloids you might think the UK is full of asylum seekers lazing about in Hampstead council mansions Share 2 1 Edward Snowden is currently the most famous asylum seeker in the world after reportedly applying for refugee status in countries including Russia, Germany, Spain and Ecuador. In many ways Snowden is far removed from the average asylum seeker. He is an American ex-spy, is assisted by WikiLeaks in his pursuit of asylum and was at one point believed to have been hiding in the Bolivian President’s plane. But the case of Edward Snowden means that people are reading about asylum, an issue that is shrouded by misconceptions. Tabloids and popular myths can make it appear as though western countries are perennially flooded by refugees. Opinion polling in 2012 showed that four out of 10 people in the UK believed that more than 10 per cent of the population are asylum seekers. The ...

 "NSA leaker Edward Snowden appears to be a lot of things: brave, well spoken and a committed proponent of civil disobedience. But one thing he almost certainly is not is a refugee. Snowden landed Sunday in Russia from Hong Kong , where the U.S. was seeking his extradition on espionage charges. Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, subsequently announced via Twitter that Snowden had requested asylum in the impoverished South American country." (...) " So for Snowden to be a refugee with a valid claim to asylum he would have to argue two things. First, he’d have to show that he has a well-founded fear of persecution based on his political opinion. Second, he’d have to show that the crime he has admitted to, namely leaking highly classified documents, is either nonserious or political." Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/06/24/why-edward-snowden-isnt-a-refugee/#ixzz2XDzc1cGG Dit artikel ...