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It's actually not clear that there is a warrant for his arrest in Hong Kong, only a request by the US to Hong Kong authorities.

Right now I'm guessing Hong Kong and Beijing authorities are both dearly wishing Snowden had chosen somewhere else, and wondering what exactly to do with him. Until they figure that out, staying silent is probably the best thing they can do.

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  Right now I'm guessing Hong Kong and Beijing authorities 
  are both dearly wishing Snowden had chosen somewhere else

Flip the actors. What if a Chinese spy had fled to the United States and started to feed the press information on how the Chinese government had hacked essentially every computer system in the US; and in return the Chinese issued an arrest warrant, and demanded that the US send him back to the mainland so he could be tortured to death?

If you had a point you were trying to make, it was lost in the absurd hyperbole.

Where is the absurd hyperbole? That he would be tortured? Look at the case of Manning. Look to what the three NSA whistleblowers said awaited him when he returned.

As a US citizen, I want to believe this is hyperbole and nonsense, but the fact is, this is exactly what we should be doing - turning the mirror upon ourselves and performing a real self-examination of who we are as a country.

Manning is not dead (hence, not "tortured to death"), and he is also subject to the military justice system, which Snowden is not.

Manning was tortured. Sleep deprivation for many months is recognized as torture under international law, right?

If you stop looking for a reason to argue and instead read my words with dispassion, you'll realize I never said he wasn't tortured.

Indeed. He wouldn't be tortured to death.

He would be tortured, then executed.

To me it seems they are going to protect him or at least prevent Us from searching him. After all he showed to the world that US is just as bad in the things as China is and you'd think China wouldn't want to just give him up for it.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42147_Hong_Kong_Want...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1012461...

HK, maybe not, they may enjoy the opportunity to create strong precedent behind their autonomy.

Here's a paper, it might be interesting. I haven't read it yet. Not even sure it is related. http://www.law.emory.edu/fileadmin/journals/eilr/26/26.2/Din...

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