斯諾登在莫斯科機場同人權活動人士會晤

Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is meeting Friday with human rights groups and Russian lawyers at a Moscow airport to talk about what he says is "threatening behavior" by the United States to keep him from gaining asylum.

The head of the Russian office of Amnesty International, Sergei Nikitin, said he would attend the meeting in the airport's transit area, where Snowden has been staying for nearly three weeks. A representative of Human Rights Watch also said she would go, and posted a Facebook message in which Snowden accused the U.S. of waging "an unlawful campaign" to deny him the right to seek asylum.

Three Latin American countries -- Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua -- have offered the 30-year-old Snowden asylum. But getting there may prove difficult, as the U.S. has revoked his passport.

Snowden said he plans to talk with the group he is meeting with about the "next steps forward in my situation." He has not been seen publicly since he arrived at Sheremetyevo airport after a flight from Hong Kong.

The U.S. wants him extradited to stand trial on espionage charges, after he leaked details of surveillance programs conducted by the clandestine U.S. National Security Agency. Russia has refused to release him to U.S. custody, while urging him to depart for another country.前美國情報機構前合同僱員斯諾登將於星期五在莫斯科機場與人權組織和俄羅斯律師會面，討論他所稱的美國阻撓他獲得避難的“威脅性行爲。

大赦國際的俄羅斯辦事處負責人說，他將出席在莫斯科機場轉機區舉行的會晤，斯諾登在那裏已經被困三個星期。

人權觀察的一名代表表示他也會去，他在臉書上轉發了署名爲斯諾登的一個郵件，抨擊美國正在發起一場否決他尋求避難權利的“非法運動”

委內瑞拉、尼加拉瓜和玻利維亞這三個拉美國家向30歲的斯諾等提供避難場所。不過，由於美國吊銷了斯諾登的護照，讓他離開莫斯科變得非常麻煩。

斯諾登說，他將與計劃會面的人討論他目前所處局面的下一步打算。自從他從香港飛抵莫斯科機場以來，他還沒有公開露面。

斯諾登泄漏了由美國國家安全局執行的祕密監控計劃的細節之後，美國想把他引渡回國接受間諜指控的審判。不過俄羅斯拒絕將他交給美國，同時敦促斯諾登離開俄羅斯到別的國家去。