New York Times Op-Ed: Pardon Edward Snowden

The bylined writers hold senior positions at Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Kenneth Roth is executive director of Human Rights Watch; Salil Shetty is the secretary general of Amnesty International. Today, on page A27 of The New York Times, they argue that the U.S. government should pardon Edward Snowden.

From the editorial:

Newspapers that published Mr. Snowden’s revelations won the Pulitzer Prize. The United Nations issued resolutions on protecting digital privacy and created a mandate to promote the right to privacy. Many technology companies, facing outrage at their apparent complicity in mass surveillance, began providing end-to-end encryption by default.

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