The United States, a former us national security agency to undertake to reveal two highly classified surveillance program has permission to leave "third country", because the request for extradition and not fully abide by the laws of the Hong Kong and territorial government said on Sunday.
Government in a statement, not sure, but has been in contact with Edward snowden's south China morning post, reported that he is in a flat in Moscow, but Russia is not the final destination.
Snowdon, who has been holed up in Hong Kong a few weeks, because of his highly secret spy program details, has talked about seeking shelter in Iceland.
Itar-tass quoted Russian aeroflot an unidentified officials said, snowdon will fly from Moscow to Cuba on Monday, and then on a plane to Caracas, venezuela.
Snowdon, the day before the start, the United States formally request to extradite him, and warned that the Hong Kong to delay in the process of returning his trial in the United States
Hong Kong government said the snowden leave their own "third country through legal and proper channels."
Admit the extradition request, but he said that the document is not "completely conform to the law, according to the laws of Hong Kong." It said that the extra information from Washington, but because the government of Hong Kong "is not yet have enough information to handle the request provisional arrest warrant, also there is no limit to the legal basis for Mr Snowdon leave Hong Kong."
Statement said that Hong Kong has informed us of snowdon. It added that it hope snowden said U.S. government agencies in Hong Kong on suspicion of the hacker's computer system for more information.
Snowdon, eliminate may start at the time of the battle between Washington and Beijing, China is trying to transfer the blame for a wide range of monitoring the us government and commercial operations. Hong Kong, a former British colony, have high degree of autonomy, and awarded the didn't see China's rights and freedom, but according to the city's small constitution, Beijing allowed intervention involving national defense and foreign affairs.
Hong Kong has an extradition treaty with the United States file, but there are some exceptions, including is seen as a political crime.
On Saturday, the Obama administration warning Hong Kong don't delay to extradite snowden, white floor, national security adviser Tom donilon told CBS news: "Hong Kong has been a good partner in the history of the United States law enforcement matters, and we expect in this case, they abide by the treaty."
Snowdon's departure came to the south China morning post "published snowden issued new charges, us hackers attack targets including national phone company and two universities in China held a wide range of Internet traffic hub.
He told our reporter, "NSA do all sorts of things, such as hackers steal your SMS data. Mobile phone companies in China" It added that snowden said, he has a file, to support the charges of hacking but no sure the report file. , it said in an interview on June 12, he told the financial times.
With a population of more than 130 million, the Chinese have a large number of mobile phone company. China mobile is the world's largest mobile network operator, with 735 million users, 2.58 million users, China telecom and China unicom had 172 million users.
Snowdon said, tsinghua university in Beijing and in Hong Kong, China, home to some of the country's main Internet traffic hub, the university is the goal of the widespread hacking, secret service this year. And he said, the national security agency's focus is on China's so-called "backbone", through a lot of Internet data transfer.
The Chinese government has no to the request for extradition and the snowden's departure, but the state-run media snowden charges tong, after returning to the United States spent the past few months in Washington to pressure China on international spy action.
By the official xinhua news agency on Sunday, according to an article published in the United States on China's espionage have snowden disclosure "put Washington in a very awkward situation."
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