The authorities of Hong Kong decided that asylum seekers are not threatened in their countries. Hong Kong refused to grant asylum to a group that, in 2013, helped to escape former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden. The granting of asylum to the authorities of Hong Kong was addressed by three citizens of Sri Lanka and one Filipina who sheltered for two weeks in their homes Snowden after he left the United States and arrived in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong authorities decided that asylum-seekers are not threatened by anything in the countries of which they are citizens. Sri Lankans Ajit, Duck and his wife Nadiyaka, as well as Filipina Vanessa Rodel, who also asked for asylum in Canada, can appeal against the decision of the Hong Kong authorities within two weeks. Their names became known shortly before the release of Oliver Stone's film, which tells the story of former CIA agent Edward Snowden. In late February, Sri Lankan lawyer Robert Tibbo said that the authorities of Sri Lanka illegally pursue his clients.

From his words, at the end of last year, investigators came to Sri Lanka from Hong Kong, and tried to find Sri Lankans who harbored Snowden. In the US Snowden is accused of stealing state property, illegal use of information relating to national defense, as well as in the deliberate disclosure of classified data. Earlier in the US intelligence, they learned about Russia's possible plans to give Snowden as a "gift" to US President Donald Trump,.

Original article: Hong Kong denied safe haven to Snowden.