The Russian government has granted former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden a temporary asylum reprieve.
Snowden is wanted in the USA for crimes bordering on treason after information he disclosed revealed that the US routinely spies on the emails of not just everyone in the world, but also foreign governments, including European allies.
Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said Snowden was issued papers that allowed him to leave Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where he had been stuck since his arrival from Hong Kong on 23 June, according to Reuters.
“I have just seen him off. He has left for a secure location,” Kucherena told state broadcaster Russia 24. “Security is a very serious matter for him.”