Filipina who sheltered Snowden in Hong Kong gets Canada asylum
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MONTREAL, Canada -- Canada has granted asylum to a woman who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed US global surveillance programs, a refugee rights association said Monday. Vanessa Rodel and her seven-year-old daughter Keana werFilipina who sheltered Snowden in Hong Kong gets Canada asylum
MONTREAL, Canada -- Canada has granted asylum to a woman who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed US global surveillance programs, a refugee rights association said Monday. Vanessa Rodel and her seven-year-old daughter Keana were scheduled to arrive in Toronto later Monday on a flight from Hong Kong, the non-profit organization For the Refugees said. They were set to travel to Montreal on Tuesday to settle there as private sector-sponsored refugees. Rodel was among a group of people who sheltered Snowden, a former CIA employee and US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, putting him up in her apartment in 2013 while he was in Hong Kong on the run...Keep on reading: Filipina who sheltered Snowden in Hong Kong gets Canada asylum Read more