{"id":1877,"date":"2019-03-26T03:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:19:53","slug":"canada-has-granted-asylum-to-one-of-the-refugee-families-who-hid-snowden-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2019\/03\/26\/canada-has-granted-asylum-to-one-of-the-refugee-families-who-hid-snowden-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada has granted asylum to one of the refugee families who hid Snowden in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>But others who helped Snowden still waiting for a decision from Canada on refugee status, with one ‘unraveling’ mentally and hospitalized<\/p>\n

Source: Canada grants refugee status to some asylum-seekers who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong | National Post<\/a><\/p>\n

HONG KONG \u2014 Vanessa Rodel was so afraid to believe the news, she asked her lawyer to repeat it, five times.<\/p>\n

But each time, the message she had longed to hear was exactly the same, and each time it was every bit as momentous: Rodel, a Filipino national, and her seven-year-old daughter Keana would finally be leaving Hong Kong for a new life thousands of kilometres away in Canada, ending a decade of suspended animation here…<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The others who helped Snowden \u2014 a Sri Lankan couple with two young children and another single Sri Lankan man \u2014 are still awaiting word on whether Canada will accept them as refugees. And the long years as second-class citizens in Hong Kong \u2014 with the ever-present threat of being returned to the countries they fled in fear \u2014 seem to be having a dire impact.<\/p>\n

Supun Kellapatha, father of the two children, was hospitalized Friday due to increasingly fragile mental health; only his last-ditch court challenge now stands in the way of his being forced back to Sri Lanka.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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But others who helped Snowden still waiting for a decision from Canada on refugee status, with one ‘unraveling’ mentally and hospitalized Source: Canada grants refugee status to some asylum-seekers who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong | National Post HONG … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[296,326],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-refugees","tag-snowden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":412,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/10\/24\/ftc-hires-new-cto-with-deep-links-to-snowden\/","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":0},"title":"FTC hires new CTO with deep links to Snowden documents – FedScoop","author":"aslam","date":"October 24, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"FTC hires new CTO with deep links to Snowden documents - FedScoop","rel":"","context":"In \"Ashkan Soltani\"","block_context":{"text":"Ashkan Soltani","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/ashkan-soltani\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":100,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/09\/19\/op-ed-why-obama-should-pardon-edward-snowden\/","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":1},"title":"Op-ed: Why Obama should pardon Edward Snowden | Ars Technica","author":"aslam","date":"September 19, 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Op-ed: Why Obama should pardon Edward Snowden | Ars Technica","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":625,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/07\/02\/statement-from-edward-snowden-in-moscow\/","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":2},"title":"Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow","author":"aslam","date":"July 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesSee on wikileaks.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":621,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/08\/10\/lavabit-email-service-snowden-reportedly-used\/","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":3},"title":"Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts\u00a0down","author":"aslam","date":"August 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesRemember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and security for users than popular web-based free services like Gmail?See on boingboing.net","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":626,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/06\/26\/take-a-break-from-the-snowden-drama-for-a-reminder\/","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":4},"title":"Take A Break From The Snowden Drama For A Reminder Of What He’s Revealed So Far","author":"aslam","date":"June 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesAs tense as Snowden\u2019s spy thriller may be, it doesn\u2019t compare to the story revealed in the content of his leaks. 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