{"id":17715,"date":"2014-04-24T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=17715"},"modified":"2014-04-24T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:44:09","slug":"edward-snowden-installed-as-university-of-glasgow-student-leader-but-unlikely-to-visit-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-installed-as-university-of-glasgow-student-leader-but-unlikely-to-visit-uk.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden installed as University of Glasgow student leader but unlikely to visit UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    LONDON  Former National    Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has been installed as    the official representative of students at the University of    Glasgow.  <\/p>\n<p>    Snowden told the ceremony by video link that, in the office, he    would follow the idea \"that if we believe in something we    should stand up for it.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    He said \"in a democracy, people have a right to know the    policies of their government.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Snowden leaked documents disclosing details of U.S. spies'    surveillance of the Internet and telephone communications. He    has been granted asylum in Russia.  <\/p>\n<p>    He was elected rector  the students' representative to    university management  out of a field of four candidates in    February.  <\/p>\n<p>    Snowden is unlikely to visit Glasgow, however. Britain has an    extradition treaty with the U.S., where he is wanted on    criminal charges.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/04\/23\/edward-snowden-installed-as-university-glasgow-student-leader-but-unlikely-to\" title=\"Edward Snowden installed as University of Glasgow student leader but unlikely to visit UK\">Edward Snowden installed as University of Glasgow student leader but unlikely to visit UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> LONDON Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has been installed as the official representative of students at the University of Glasgow. Snowden told the ceremony by video link that, in the office, he would follow the idea \"that if we believe in something we should stand up for it.\" He said \"in a democracy, people have a right to know the policies of their government.\" Snowden leaked documents disclosing details of U.S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}