Snowden wants to return to the USA

Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden wants to return to his homeland, lawyers are doing everything possible for this, said lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, representing his interests.

“We are doing everything possible to resolve this issue,” Kucherena said at a press conference on Tuesday. Answering the question whether Snowden wants to return to the United States, Kucherena replied: “of course.”

What is known Edward Snowden

In June 2013, Snowden, a former employee of the US National Security Agency, handed over to The Washington Post and The Guardian newspapers a number of classified materials about the surveillance programs of the US and British intelligence services on the Internet. Then he flew to Hong Kong, and from June 23, 2013, he was in the transit zone of Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. In August, Snowden received temporary asylum in Russia for a year. In the United States, he was accused of deliberately transferring classified data to the intelligence services of other countries and a number of other crimes. Snowden faces up to 10 years in prison on each count.