Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 8, 2014

Snowden: US spied on human rights workers


By Luke Harding
The Guardian
The US has spied on the staff of prominent human rights organisations, Edward Snowden has told the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Europe's top human rights body.
Giving evidence via a videolink from Moscow, Snowden said the National Security Agency – for which he worked as a contractor – had deliberately snooped on bodies like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Read article at The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/edwards-snowden-us-government-spied-human-rights-workers

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