Updated 6:41 PM ET, Thu October 29, 2015
(CNN) The European Parliament voted Thursday in support of a resolution that calls on member states to protect Edward Snowden from extradition.
The vote, which has no legal force, was 285-281. The resolution urges nations to drop criminal charges and “consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in recognition of his status as whistle-blower and international human rights defender.”
Snowden, a former contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency, leaked documents about top secret mass surveillance programs. He fled the United States in 2013 and spent more than a month living in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport before being granted asylum.
Categories: Americas, Europe and Australia