{"id":6625,"date":"2013-07-03T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2013-07-03T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:51:32","slug":"austria-not-worried-about-passanger-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6625","title":{"rendered":"Austria not worried about passenger Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6628\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mikl_leitner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6628\" alt=\"Mikl-Leitner\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mikl_leitner-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mikl_leitner-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mikl_leitner.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikl-Leitner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Austria allowed Bolivian President Evo Morales&#8217; plane to land because it did not share other countries&#8217; worries that former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden might be on board, Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">France and <span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\">Portugal<\/span><\/span> abruptly canceled air permits for Morales&#8217; plane en route from Moscow, forcing the unscheduled stopover in Vienna late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman said rumours that Snowden was on the plane were untrue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Austria did not close its airspace and the plane could of course land although many other countries apparently feared that Snowden was on board too,&#8221; the minister told ORF radio. &#8220;Austria did not do that, which means there is no fear here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wanted by Washington for espionage after divulging classified details of U.S. phone and Internet surveillance, Snowden apparently remains in the transit area of Moscow&#8217;s Sheremetyevo airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He applied for asylum in Austria &#8211; and several other countries &#8211; via the country&#8217;s Moscow embassy on Monday, which the government said was insufficient to grant him refuge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mikl-Leitner said it would be up to Austrian asylum authorities to decide what to do in the unlikely case that Snowden arrived there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She defended Austria&#8217;s position that Snowden would have to apply in person for asylum, saying this was clearly spelled out in the law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is in the hands of the authorities and independent courts. The important thing here is that this would be judged individually, as in every other case,&#8221; she said. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria allowed Bolivian President Evo Morales&#8217; plane to land because it did not share other countries&#8217; worries that former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden might be on board, Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said on Wednesday. France and Portugal abruptly canceled air permits for Morales&#8217; plane en route from Moscow, forcing the unscheduled stopover in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Austria not worried about passenger Snowden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,10,123],"tags":[1288,3678,3053,3030],"class_list":["post-6625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-asylum","tag-austria","tag-ed-snowden","tag-nsa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mikl_leitner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}