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The Green Party MEP Peter Eriksson requires the government issues a promise not to extradite Edward Snowden to the US.
At the same time criticizing Ulvskog (S) their Swedish fellow party members in the European Parliament because they voted against a resolution that expressed their support to the whistle-blower should receive protection in Europe.
Green Party MEP Peter Eriksson requires the government issues a promise not to extradite Edward Snowden to the US.
While criticizing Ulvskog (S) their Swedish fellow party members in the European Parliament because they voted against a resolution that expressed their support to the whistle-blower should receive protection in Europe.
In an interview in Saturday’s DN said American former Defence employee Snowden, who since 2013 lives in Moscow, that he would like that the Swedish Government made a statement that he would be granted asylum in Sweden.
– Symbolic it would be important, he said.
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But so far no such signals come from the red-green government, even though the Green Party foreign policy spokesperson Valter Mutt last year received much attention with a statement that Snowden should be collected in Moscow by the Swedish government plane.
– I stand by it. We must find a way to give him asylum in Sweden, says Valter Mutt.
He now support of the party’s former spokesman Peter Eriksson, who recently was with and pushed through a resolution in the European Parliament which calls on Member States to offer Snowden protection.
– You could promise an amnesty, especially in this situation when the European Parliament has said yes to it. This reduces the problem for Sweden as a state to be able to do such a thing, believes Mr Eriksson.
Read more: Five hours with Edward Snowden
The answer from Gustav Fridolin’s successor as MP spokesperson, so far has been that politicians should not interfere in a judicial process that an asylum application means. But Peter Eriksson believes that the government should make an exception in the case of Snowden.
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– There is a special situation. There is a person who has made contributions which have been very positive and we received awards for his fight for freedom of speech and was a whistleblower of importance, he said.
Peter Eriksson requires that the government issues a promise that Snowden did not extradited to the USA if he would choose to seek asylum in Sweden.
– Says the man that he would not be extradited to the United States is a difference with the previous government, he said.
Peter Eriksson must now raise the matter with Gustav Fridolin, who does not want to answer questions from the DN.
– Here is aimed Peter Eriksson to the Government and then it is the minister responsible, in this case, Foreign Minister Wallström, who will answer, says Emma Stark, Fridolins press secretary.
I can not even talk to Fridolin about this?
– No, that’s my answer.
Neither Foreign Minister Margot Wallström (S) have “neither the time nor the opportunity” to respond to Peter Eriksson demands the government to promise not to omit Snowden to the US – where he threatened to life imprisonment for having leaked documents about including intelligence NSA’s mass surveillance of American citizens.
– Snow’s case tried according to the rules that exist and it is difficult for a foreign minister to comment on an individual case, says Margot Wallström’s press secretary Pezman Fivrin.
But when the DN’s Mikael Holmström recently interviewed Wallström said she was still the question of whether Sweden would give Snowden asylum.
– There is no question can I say. It means no, replied Ms Wallström.
It is clear, that even the Social Democrats are divided on the case Snowden. Marita Ulvskog, the President of the Swedish S-delegation in the European Parliament, addressed now open criticism of other Swedish S-labeled MEPs for having voted against the resolution, which urges Member States to give the American 32-year-old shelter. Marita Ulvskog not present during the vote, according to herself because of a medical emergency.
– I had wanted to be in a discussion of the positions adopted before marked in such a loaded question. This is not right with the way we voted earlier, she says.
But Anna Hedh, one of the four Swedish presently S-MPs who voted against the resolution, disagrees. She believes that the decision to vote against the resolution was well thought out.
– Politicians should not interfere in the courts’ work. Then it all wrong, says Anna Hedh.
The three other Swedish Social Democrat MEPs Olle Ludvigsson, Jytte Guteland and Jens Nilsson voted not to express support for Snowden should receive protection in the EU.
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