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[–] 3 points 4 months 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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