US leaker Edward Snowden has applied for political asylum in Russia after more than a week in limbo. Source: AAP
INDIA has rejected former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's request for political asylum, the External Affairs Ministry said.
The Indian embassy in Moscow had received a request for asylum from Snowden, ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told reporters.
He said India carefully examined the request and decided to turn it down.
The government has "concluded that we see no reason to accede to that request," he said.
Earlier Tuesday, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said India "has a very careful and restrictive policy on asylums."
"We have given asylums in the past but we are not an open house for asylums since we have a careful and objective policy," he said in Brunei, where he is attending a regional security forum.
India has not ratified a 1951 international convention on refugees and has no regular procedure for granting asylum to people fleeing persecution.
European Parliament president Martin Schulz said he was sympathetic to an asylum request by fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, comparing reports of US spying on EU offices to "KGB methods".
Schulz, a German Social Democrat, told public broadcaster ARD that Snowden, who has reportedly submitted asylum requests to 21 nations, had helped the global cause of transparency by exposing the alleged US bugging.
"I believe Mr Snowden showed us that the United States of America treats its closest partners including Germany, for example, but also the European Union as a whole like hostile powers," he said.
"That is absolutely unacceptable. That is why the authorities will have to determine when Mr Snowden submits an application whether he is actually being politically persecuted.
"But I am sympathetic to this application," he said, when asked whether Germany should take him in.
WikiLeaks said Monday that Snowden had submitted asylum requests to countries including Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, India, China, Russia, Germany and France, in addition to earlier requests to Ecuador and Iceland.
However, a Kremlin spokesman said that Snowden, who is in legal limbo in the transit zone of a Moscow airport, had abandoned his request for political asylum in Russia after it told him he would have to stop leaking US intelligence reports.
Schulz said Europeans were "deeply disappointed" in US President Barack Obama in light of the allegations, adding that security justifications for the eavesdropping appeared bogus.
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