Moscow ({{AFP}}) -{ Edward Snowden, the fugitive whistleblower who has been given refuge in Russia, is willing to return to the United States if he is given a fair trial, his lawyer said Tuesday.}<\/p>\n
“He is thinking about it. He has a desire to return and we are doing everything we can to make it happen,” Anatoly Kucherena, the Russian lawyer who represents the former National Security Agency contractor, told a news conference.<\/p>\n
Snowden was given political asylum in Russia in the summer of 2013 after the US revoked his passport. He now leads a reclusive life there. <\/p>\n
“With a group of lawyers from other countries, we are working on the question of his return to America,” Kucherena said.<\/p>\n
“Snowden is ready to return to the States, but on the condition that he is given a guarantee of a legal and impartial trial,” he said.<\/p>\n
The lawyer said Snowden had so far only received a guarantee from the US Attorney General that he will not face the death penalty.<\/p>\n
He said that Snowden is able to travel outside Russia since he has a three-year Russian residency permit, but “I suspect that as soon as he leaves Russia, he will be taken to the US embassy.”<\/p>\n
Kucherena’s comments came at a presser where he presented a thriller loosely based on his encounters with Snowden.<\/p>\n
US filmmaker Oliver Stone has bought the rights to the book as he prepares to shoot a biopic about Snowden starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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