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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That seems odd to me.

  He was working in Hawaii so he takes a layover in Russia??

  Something doesn’t smell right, even with how weird layovers can be.

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  • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He was in Hong Kong, selected because it wouldn’t raise any flags and he could hide.

    Then he got help from some lawyers in WikiLeaks that tried to get him asylum in Latin America, so he had to get a layover in a country without an extradition treaty. That flight took him to Russia, but the US prevented him from catching the next plane because they canceled his passport and trapped him there.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    do you know nothing of the incident. He was in asia for awhile and was trapped in russia because orgininally he did have a european destination but it became clear that was likely to get him extridated so it changed to south america. Granted the person you replying to calling it a layover to latin america was representing it kinda wierd so im thinking he may have limited recall on it. He was in hon kong for awhile.

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah, I didn’t realize those were the circumstances — I assumed it was from wherever he was working at the time (I thought it was Hawaii but I could be wrong).

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yeah I have no idea where he was working or was before hong kong. pretty much when it hit the news it was even guesswork of where he was but I know he was working with a group that moved him from home to home of trusted people.

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