INQUIRER.net: Italy, France deny asylum for Snowden

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Italy, France deny asylum for Snowden Jul 4th 2013, 23:15 Italy and France both rejected on Thursday the requests for asylum from fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.   Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said Thursday that Italy could not accept an asylum request from the former US intelligence analyst because there were no legal or political conditions to do so.   "The request for political asylum was lodged two days ago via a fax sent to the Italian embassy," Bonino said in an address to parliament.   "The rules require that the asylum-seeker needs to present himself personally" either to the embassy or on Italian territory, she said.   "The conditions are not there to accept it, no... Keep on reading: Italy, France deny asylum for Snowden Media files: snowden1-600x359.jpg (image/jpeg)

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