Snowden receives refugee document of passage from Ecuador

Snowden receives refugee document of passage from Ecuador

(Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Monday that

fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden had received

refugee papers from the Ecuador government to secure him safe passage

as he fled Hong Kong over the weekend.



"In relation to Hong Kong, Mr Snowden was supplied with a refugee

document of passage by the Ecuadorean government," Assange told

reporters from inside the Ecuador embassy in London where he has been

himself hiding from arrest for more than a year.



Such papers did not necessarily mean that Snowden would be granted

asylum in Ecuador, Assange said.



(Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien and Costas Pitas Writing by Maria Golovnina)

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