Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of mass U.S. surveillance programs, said on Wednesday he is not being offered a fair trial if he returns to the United States.
"I would love to go back and face a fair trial, but unfortunately ... there is no fair trial available, on offer right now," he said from Russia in a live question and answer discussion organized by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Toronto's Ryerson University and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
"I've been working exhaustively with the government now since I left to try to find terms of a trial," he said.
On Tuesday, his Russian lawyer had said that Snowden has been working with American and German lawyers on a way to return to the United States.
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