All Alone
Robert Tibbo, Pushpakumara’s lawyer in Canada, said his client has a pending application with Canadian immigration.
“The difficulty here is that Ajith is all alone right now and he’s questioning why his case is taking so long,” he told AFP.
Tibbo himself left Hong Kong in 2017, saying he feared for his safety after representing the Snowden refugees in the Chinese business hub.
Snowden revealed thousands of classified documents exposing vast US surveillance put in place after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
He ended up stranded in Hong Kong as media published his findings, initially in a hotel, surrounded by journalists from around the globe.
The group of refugees agreed to shelter him for about two weeks until he could fly to Russia, where he now lives.
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