TechHive: Snowden has left the airport! Russia grants asylum for a year

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Snowden has left the airport! Russia grants asylum for a year Aug 1st 2013, 13:41, by Peter Sayer, IDG News Service National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has finally left the transit area of the Moscow airport, after Russia granted him temporary asylum, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal. Wikileaks, the whistleblowing website that has been handling some asylum negotiations for Snowden, also reported the news via Twitter. "Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia for a year and has now left Moscow airport under the care of WikiLeaks' Sarah Harrison," it said in a tweet. Snowden's Russian lawyer told the Journal that he had seen his client to a taxi, but did not know where he was going. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: edward_snowden-100041087-small.jpg

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