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"Edward Snowden will be answering questions submitted by the public
on his official support site, <a href="http://www.freesnowden.is"
target="_blank">freesnowden.is</a>, this Thursday 23 January at
8pm GMT, 3pm EST. The support site is run by The Courage Foundation
and is the only endorsed <a
href="http://freesnowden.is/donate/index.html" target="_blank">Snowden
Defence Fund.</a>
<p>This is the first Snowden live chat since June 2013 and will last
for an hour starting at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST. Questions can be
submitted on twitter on the day of the event using the #AskSnowden
hashtag. Edward Snowden’s responses will appear at <a
href="http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden" target="_blank">http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden</a>
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<p>The live chat comes exactly a week after US President Barack
Obama gave an address in response to the public concerns raised by
Edward Snowden’s revelations about US surveillance practices. In
the live chat, Edward Snowden is expected to give his first
reaction to the President’s speech.</p>
<p>Courage (formerly the Journalistic Source Protection Defence
Fund) is a trust, audited by accountants Derek Rothera &
Company in the UK, for the purpose of providing legal defence and
campaign aid to journalistic sources. It is overseen by an
unrenumerated committee of trustees. Edward Snowden is its first
recipient.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.freesnowden.is" target="_blank">freesnowden.is</a>
was commissioned by the trustees of Courage to provide information
on the threats Edward Snowden faces and what can be done to
support him, and details <a
href="http://freesnowden.is/revelations/index.html"
target="_blank">all revelations made to date</a> in a convenient
central archive." </p>
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