Brazils Snowden Petition Hits 1m Signatures An internet campaign calling for U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to be granted asylum in Brazil has gathered more than one million signatures, online activist group Avaaz said Monday. Avaaz launched the campaign a month ago, hoping to gain more than one million signatories but now the group has revised its target to 1.25 million. The organization believes the fugitive Snowden should be recognized as a whistleblower acting in the public interest -- not as a dangerous criminal after the former National Security Agency contractor disclosed details of a vast intelligence operation monitoring millions of phone calls and emails worldwide. The Avaaz petition calls on the Brazilian government to offer Snowden, who received temporary asylum in Russia in August, to take in the former contractor, who said last month he was willing to help Brasilia investigate U.S. spying. naharnet/stories/en/116035-brazil-s-snowden-petition-hits-1m-signatures
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:22:30 +0000
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