14 DAY TRIAL // One of the biggest issues with the Snowden case was the fact that even if he agreed to one of the asylum offers, he could not leave Russia since his passport has been revoked by the US authorities.
However, the World Service Authorities, a Washington-based branch of the World Government of World Citizens, has recently issued Snowden a world citizen passport.
“WSA issues World Passport to Edward Snowden Based upon article 13 (2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” the message posted on the organization’s Twitter page reads.
The WSA’s founder Garry Davis believes this unprecedented situation reveals the power of one individual against the nation-state system, while also highlighting individual sovereignty.
“The fact that Snowden is immobilized in a Moscow Airport Transit lounge further exposes the fiction of nation-state frontiers,” Davis said.
The World Government of World Citizens has been issuing its passports since the 1950’s, but only four countries recognize their IDs, namely Muritania, Tanzania, Togo and Ecuador, which is actually on Snowden’s list of countries he requested asylum in.
Ecuador’s officials have repeatedly said they would most certainly consider Snowden’s asylum request if he was on their territory. At the same time, they slammed the United States organizations for spying on the entire world and thus breaking basic human rights.
They even went as far as to offer to pay the United States a yearly sum to be directed to funding human rights classes.
A reaction is pending from Ecuadorian authorities regarding what they’d do if Snowden came to their country with the help of the World Passport, but both the Foreign Minister and the President have stated time and time again that Snowden is a man who should be protected from “imperialist powers.”
Snowden has so far been offered asylum by three countries, namely Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.