Edward Snowden, who leaked top secret details about US surveillance programmes, said yesterday that he intended to remain in Hong Kong and fight any extradition request in the city’s courts.
Speaking for the first time since his identity was disclosed on Sunday, Mr Snowden, 29, said that he had faith in Hong Kong’s rule of law and denied that he was running from justice.
“My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate,” he said in an interview published yesterday by the South China Morning Post, the leading English-language newspaper in Hong Kong.
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