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‘Snowden Refugees’ Mostly Now in Canada

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‘Snowden Refugees’ Mostly Now in Canada

Remaining Sri Lankan ex-soldier still in Hong Kong

John Berthelsen
Oct 7, 2021
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‘Snowden Refugees’ Mostly Now in Canada

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Eight years after they helped celebrated whistleblower Edward Snowden escape from the United States through Hong Kong after he staged one of the biggest data drops in the history of classified information, six of the seven political refugees who hid him in the territory have finally broken out of their political limbo and have made it to Canada.

However,…

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