Reuters, 27/06 14:32 CET
OSLO (Reuters) – Former U.S. spy contractor
Edward Snowden has failed in a legal bid to win guarantees from Norway
that it would not extradite him to the United States if he went there to
receive a free speech award, a Norwegian court said on Monday.
Snowden’s law firm said in April he would take the state
to court to secure free passage to the Nordic country. The United States
has filed espionage charges against him for leaking details of
extensive U.S. surveillance programmes.
“Oslo District Court has decided that the lawsuit from
Edward Snowden against the State regarding extradition, should be
dismissed,” the court said in a statement.
Snowden was granted asylum in Russia, which borders
Norway, in 2013. He had been invited to Norway to receive a freedom of
speech award from the local branch of writers’ group PEN International, but worried that he would be handed over to the United States, his lawyers have said.
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Source: euronews.
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