Woman who helped shelter former NSA contractor Edward Snowden when he fled to Hong Kong granted refugee status in Canada.
"I feel so great and I feel like I'm free," she said.
Lawyer Robert Tibbo represented Rodel as she sought asylum in Hong Kong in 2013 due to an alleged kidnap and rape by militants in her homeland. The attorney asked her to help Snowden hide out there after he leaked documents revealing extensive U.S. government surveillance. Tibbo said Hong Kong rejected Rodel's asylum request and since then officials there have grilled her over her contacts with Snowden, who now lives in exile inTibbo and a nonprofit group called For the Refugees wants Canada to accept five others who helped Snowden.after learning that movie director Oliver Stone had found out about them and would incorporate their role into his film on Snowden, which was released in 2016.
"Since that became public they have been targeted by the Hong Kong government who called up all of their refugee claimants and denied them all on the same day after about a half hour," For the Refugees spokesman Ethan Cox said. "They have had their support payments cut off. They've only been able to survive off donations to our non-profit.""Thank you to all those in Canada and around the world who have made this possible," he wrote in French.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said she could not comment on privately sponsored refugee applications.
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