DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. secrets leaker Edward Snowden won't be pressured to leave Russia any time soon, a major Russian lawmaker said Friday. <\/p>\n
The comment by parliamentarian Alexy Pushkov comes after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Snowden would not get clemency if he came home, CNN reported. <\/p>\n
Pushkov, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Russia's lower house, the Duma, said Snowden's year-old asylum would be extended and he wouldn't be sent back to the United States. <\/p>\n
The legislator made his remarks during the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland. <\/p>\n
Holder said Thursday Snowden, who leaked secrets about U.S. and British intelligence gathering he collected while a contractor for the National Security Agency, could come home in a plea deal. <\/p>\n
But clemency is out of the question, Holder said. <\/p>\n
\"We've always indicated ... that the notion of clemency isn't something that we were willing to consider,\" Holder said at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. <\/p>\n
\"Instead, were he to come back to the United States to enter a plea, we would engage with his lawyers,\" he said. <\/p>\n
\"We'd do that with any defendant who wanted to enter a plea of guilty,\" Holder told the university's non-partisan research institute. <\/p>\n
Holder did not indicate if he was open to engaging in negotiations with Snowden while he remained in Russia, beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement. <\/p>\n
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