Canada, Please Save All the ‘Snowden Refugees’

Expand Asylum seekers Nadeeka Dilrukshi Nonis, right, with her son Dinath and daughter Sethmundi Kellapatha and Vanessa Mae Rodel with her daughter Keana wait at the office of Torture Claims Appeal Board in Hong Kong Monday, July 17, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Vincent Yu Vanessa Rodel and her young daughter Keana are finally safe, some six years after they opened the door to a scared young man who was seeking shelter in Hong Kong. That man was Edward Snowden, introduced to the penniless refugee family by their shared lawyer, who needed his soon-to-be-famous client to disappear for a few days while…

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