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Edward Snowden Ready to Go to US If He Gets A Fair and Impartial Trial – Video

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Whistleblower Edward Snowden comments on possibility of a fair trial if he returned home to the U.S. – Video

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Edward Snowdens lawyer on Wednesday sought to tamp down speculation that the fugitive whistle-blower could soon return to the United States.

Anatoly Kucherena told a news conference Tuesday that his client wants to go home and has teamed up with U.S. and German lawyers to work on the issue.

Some reporters must have misinterpreted what I said during my press conference and jumped to the wrong conclusion that my client was about to go home already, Kucherena told the Los Angeles Times in Moscow. This is not happening until the U.S. government stops politicizing Edward's case and offers him a fair and unbiased trial.

The 31-year-old former National Security Agency contractor, who is wanted on U.S. charges of theft and espionage, has been living in Russia since he fled there in 2013 and was granted asylum.

Of course Edward is often homesick, Kucherena said. But the last thing he wants is to travel to the United States to be immediately imprisoned for an indefinite period pending trial when the government openly calls him a traitor.

He said Snowden would welcome an opportunity to defend himself publicly in an open and fair trial, but that the chances of that happening appeared to be very slippery.

In the meantime, Kucherena said, Snowden has been enjoying working as an IT specialist at a Russian company. He receives regular visits from his longtime girlfriend, Lindsey Mills, and they spend their time fruitfully, going to museums, concerts and the theater, he said.

Edward enjoys Russian culture and is eagerly learning the Russian language, Kucherena added.

Snowden has not been assigned a round-the-clock security detail, Kucherena said, but Edward understands full well that he should continue to be very careful about everything he does, given the potential security risks, which he doesn't believe are diminishing.

Russian authorities won't stop Snowden if he decides to leave the country, according to an official with the Foreign Ministry.

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Snowden says US not offering fair trial if he returns

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TORONTO: Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of mass U.S. surveillance programs, said on Wednesday he is not being offered a fair trial if he returns to the United States.

"I would love to go back and face a fair trial, but unfortunately ... there is no fair trial available, on offer right now," he said from Russia in a live question and answer discussion organised by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Toronto's Ryerson University and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

"I've been working exhaustively with the government now since I left to try to find terms of a trial," he said.

On Tuesday, his Russian lawyer had said that Snowden has been working with American and German lawyers on a way to return to the United States.

During Wednesday's discussion, in which he took questions via Twitter and from a Toronto audience, Snowden said Canada falls well below other Western nations in the level of oversight it puts on its spy agencies.

"Canadian intelligence has one of the weakest oversight frameworks out of any Western intelligence agency in the world," he said.

He did not comment specifically on new legislation proposed by Canada's Conservative government that would expand the powers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the country's main intelligence service. Critics say the new bill provides little to no additional oversight.

In January, CBC News and news website The Intercept reported that 2012 documents sourced from Snowden showed that Canada's electronic spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment, had intercepted and analysed up to 15 million file downloads a day.

The Canadian media advocacy group that co-hosted Wednesday's event also launched an archive of all previously published documents released by media outlets working with Snowden. (https://cjfe.org/snowden)

(Additional reporting and writing by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Chris Reese and Peter Galloway)

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