Global response to Snowden's asylum applications

Updated: 2013-07-03 13:53

(Agencies)

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LONDON - Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by Washington on espionage charges for revealing the secret US electronic surveillance programme Prism, has applied for political asylum in more than a dozen countries.

The 30-year-old American remains in legal limbo in the transit area at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. He has no legal travel documents and has made his asylum applications through a legal representative.

Here is a list of the countries which Snowden has asked for asylum, as published by WikiLeaks, and their reactions so far.

Outright rejections

Applications 
valid only if 
made on their soil

Willing in principle

No decisions
Brazil

Finland

Germany

India

Poland

Austria

Ecuador

Iceland

Ireland

Norway

Spain

Switzerland

Venezuela
(has taken no official decision, but president expressed support)

Bolivia

China

Cuba

France

Italy

Netherlands

Nicaragua

Russia

* Snowden has withdrawn his asylum application to Russia, according to the Kremlin.

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