Report: "From Moscow with Love" - Edward Snowden
"On September 22nd 2016 Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Berlin welcomed Edward Snowden via video link from his forced exile in
Moscow to give an interview as part of their Europe series under the
title “From Moscow with love: Edward Snowden on the Criminal Story of
Democracy.”
The interview was hosted by a panel of three:
Journalist and publisher Jakob Augstein, who was in charge of moderating
the event and introduced the remaining two panel members, theatre
director and activist Angela Richter, wo had visited Snowden several
times in Moscow and lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck, who is legally representing
Snowden in Germany. The temporal context is set by the release of Oliver
Stone’s latest movie, Snowden, as well as the recently launched
campaign by Amnesty International amongst others to pardon Snowden."
