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Edward Snowden

Latest on the computer analyst whistleblower who provided the Guardian with top-secret NSA documents leading to revelations about US surveillance on phone and internet communications

October 2024

  • Julian Assange, pictured in 2010

    Julian Assange: new play about WikiLeaks founder’s life to debut in 2025

    Truth, by Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius, will feature multiple actors playing Assange as it probes questions about whistleblowers

February 2024

  • Julian Assange

    The Guardian view on Julian Assange: why he should not be extradited

    Editorial: Sending him to be tried in the United States would be an unacceptable act against the WikiLeaks founder – and against journalism

October 2023

  • Illustration of a man in red on a staircase being watched by spies in hats

    Scandinavian spy drama: the intelligence chief who came under state surveillance

    How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing ‘state secrets’ that had been in public domain for years

August 2023

  • Jess Search wearing her trademark white suit at Keble College, Oxford, during the third Britdoc festival in 2008.

    Jess Search obituary

    Documentary producer dedicated to using non-fiction storytelling to bring about change on many vital issues

June 2023

  • Bronze figures of Snowden and Assange

    Lifesize sculpture of Julian Assange appears outside UK parliament

  • FILE - In this June 23, 2013 file photo, a television screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller _ a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government s power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File )

    The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong

  • Col Rabih Alenezi

    Threatened Saudi dissident told to live like Edward Snowden by Met police

  • Edward Snowden at 29th May in Moscow<br>JA1G3H Edward Snowden at 29th May in Moscow

    ‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile

  • Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published

  • What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations?

  • States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier

    Heather Brooke

  • Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future

    Alan Rusbridger

May 2023

  • Composite of Lenore Taylor and Indonesian protesters burning a photo of Tony Abbott

    Ten years of Guardian Australia
    The top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott

    Lenore Taylor looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions

April 2023

  • sculpture of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

    From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers

    The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks

December 2022

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    Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance

    Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says

September 2022

  • Edward Snowden

    Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden

    Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013

August 2022

  • Edward Snowden<br>FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies. Snowden told The Washington Post in a story published online Monday night, Dec. 23, 2013, he has "already won" because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government's collection of bulk Internet and phone records. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

    US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations

    Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition

October 2021

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Whistleblowing requires courage, but don’t expect Facebook to change its ways

    John Naughton
    Frances Haugen’s ‘testimony tour’ of revelations about the tech company makes good copy, but will its executives listen?

September 2021

  • Originally from Sri Lanka, the family that hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong have been given new home in Canada

    Canada grants asylum to four people who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong

  • The cover of the 10 September edition of Guardian Weekly.<br>Cover of Guardian Weekly, 10 September 2021

    Inside Guardian Weekly
    Twenty years after 9/11: Inside the 10 September Guardian Weekly

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