Perhaps we can surmise the gist.The Russian Ministry of Justice has announced it is working on a reply to a letter it received from US Attorney General Eric Holder, in which he assured that Edward Snowden will not be tortured or given the death penalty if he is returned to the US.
The Ministry does not specify what the answer will be or when it will be sent to the US.
RT
The Russian Ministry of Justice said in a statement that according to the country’s laws, former CIA employer Snowden can stay inside the international transit zone for as long as he pleases, even though his travel documents were revoked by the United States.
The ministry also replied to US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul’s earlier tweet that the US was not seeking Snowden's extradition, but was instead asking for his return. The ministry explained that it could not comply with such a request, simply because the term “forced return” does not exist in international law.
The US Ambassador to Russia tweets decisions. Leaving that aside, how quaint. Russia says it has never extradited anyone and will not do so now. So the US says, we’re not asking for extradition, we’re asking for “return”. Tell me, how would returning him be accomplished without extradition? They’re saying what the US always says, “Go ahead and do this thing that is wrong, just call it something else. Works for us.”
International law, bah.
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