Ecuador Grants Asylum to Edward Snowden

[Anti Federalist]

Seriously, Occam, you are like the first and only result on this in English on Google. Kudos!

No shit.

Serious plus rep

Wait...now I'm confused.

Is it real or not?

Fuuuuuu......

 

[green73]

Oh, my, how quickly they turn! You fickle, fickle mob! I'm just the messenger!

Anyway, is the story false? Or is it just not being covered?

I haven't heard anything else about it, one way or the other.

Ecuador: Decision on Snowden could take months

 

[Occam's Banana]

Wait...now I'm confused.

Is it real or not?

Fuuuuuu......

Apparently, the Agency Brazil reporter jumped the gun or misunderstood the Ecuadoran Foreign Minister or some such thing.

Just found this at BBC. Updated OP. I haz teh sad. FTA: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23068252

Ecuador could take weeks to rule on an asylum bid by fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, officials say. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said it had taken Ecuador two months to grant asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks.

The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, has suggested punishing Ecuador economically if it does offer asylum.

He said he was ready to campaign to end preferential trade access for Ecuador.

Senator Menendez has also called on Russia to stop sheltering Mr Snowden immediately and turn him over to the United States.

[...]

On Wednesday, Mr Patino compared the case to that of Mr. Assange, who has been living inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London for more than a year.

Mr Assange walked into the embassy when his appeal against extradition to Sweden for questioning on accusations of sex crimes was turned down last June.

"It took us more than two months to make a decision in the case of Assange, so do not expect us to make a decision sooner this time," Mr Patino told reporters.

He said Ecuador had not yet decided whether to offer protection to Mr Snowden in the meantime.

"If he goes to an embassy, then we will make a decision," the foreign minister said.

Ecuador said it would consider the American's application "responsibly" and would weigh "human rights obligations".

It added that the US would have to submit its position in writing regarding Mr Snowden.

Venezuela has also said it will consider an asylum application from Mr Snowden.