Canada: Shelter Torture Survivor Who Helped Snowden

Expand Asylum seekers who sheltered Edward Snowden for a period in 2013 stand outside of Hong Kong's immigration department during a press conference in Hong Kong, China, May 15, 2017. © 2017 AP Images (Toronto, June 20, 2018) – Canada should urgently intervene to admit the asylum-seekers who assisted Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today in a letter to Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s immigration, refugees and citizenship minister. A special application has been made for one of the men, Ajith Debagama Kankanamalage, who is suffering acute post-traumatic…

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