Snowden has inquired about political asylum in Iceland- reports

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Edward Snowden (pictured below), the man who recently exposed that the Obama administration in the USA as wantonly reading and listening to people’s messages is reported to have knocked on the door of Iceland to enquire the possibility of seeking political asylum there.

According various Swedish news sources, referring to WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson, there are possibilities that question have been asked as to whether the Nordic island country ca n grant Mr. Snowden political asylum.

The Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter said that Icelander Hrafnsson made the contact and that was reported in the Icelandic newspaper Fréttabladid.

Kristinn Hrafnsson state that Snowden on June 12 got in touch with him and asked whether he could probe the possibilities of political asylum in the island nation, as the American had been looking at the country as  first choice for a more permanent exile.

“On the same day, I asked to meet with Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíd Gunnlaugsson and Interior Minister Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir for them to raise the issue,” says Hrafnsson according to Dagens Nyheter

No meeting has ever been held at this time, according to Fréttabladid. Kristinn Hrafnsson however, is reported to have blamed it on a “technical flaws” that would mean an application submitted without Edward Snowden as an applicant personally present himself. See related

by Scancomark.com Team