Lawyers of Edward Snowden, the revealer of PRISM, the secret monitoring program conducted by the United States, said on June 5 that it’s difficult for Snowden to take refuge in Russia for longer time.
Last August, the Russian government authorized Snowden to take refuge in the country for a year, which will expire at the end of the coming July.
“We think Russia will agree to extend the period to take Snowden under its wing, but we cannot be sure,” said Wolfgang Karak, Snowden’s lawyer in Germany, on June 5 to the German news station.
Snowden said last month that he was neither controlled by the Russian government nor had provided any intelligence files to Russia.
Karak appealed to the Legislative Committee of German Federal Parliament for inviting Snowden to the hearing conference in Germany and asking him to expose relevant information about the US intelligence agency monitoring German citizens.
It’s impracticable to hold such hearing conferences in Moscow, according to Karak.
That NSA monitored large amounts o f information about many German citizens including German President Angela Merkel, revealed by Snowden, aroused intensions between America and Germany.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German newspaper, reported on June 3rd that Harald Langer, general director of German Federal Inspection Agency, at the same day stated that the country would launch a criminal investigation about the US monitoring Merkel’s phone discussions.