斯诺登在莫斯科机场同人权活动人士会晤

Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is meeting Friday with human rights groups and Russian lawyers at a Moscow airport to talk about what he says is "threatening behavior" by the United States to keep him from gaining asylum.

The head of the Russian office of Amnesty International, Sergei Nikitin, said he would attend the meeting in the airport's transit area, where Snowden has been staying for nearly three weeks. A representative of Human Rights Watch also said she would go, and posted a Facebook message in which Snowden accused the U.S. of waging "an unlawful campaign" to deny him the right to seek asylum.

Three Latin American countries -- Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua -- have offered the 30-year-old Snowden asylum. But getting there may prove difficult, as the U.S. has revoked his passport.

Snowden said he plans to talk with the group he is meeting with about the "next steps forward in my situation." He has not been seen publicly since he arrived at Sheremetyevo airport after a flight from Hong Kong.

The U.S. wants him extradited to stand trial on espionage charges, after he leaked details of surveillance programs conducted by the clandestine U.S. National Security Agency. Russia has refused to release him to U.S. custody, while urging him to depart for another country.前美国情报机构前合同雇员斯诺登将于星期五在莫斯科机场与人权组织和俄罗斯律师会面，讨论他所称的美国阻挠他获得避难的“威胁性行为。

大赦国际的俄罗斯办事处负责人说，他将出席在莫斯科机场转机区举行的会晤，斯诺登在那里已经被困三个星期。

人权观察的一名代表表示他也会去，他在脸书上转发了署名为斯诺登的一个邮件，抨击美国正在发起一场否决他寻求避难权利的“非法运动”

委内瑞拉、尼加拉瓜和玻利维亚这三个拉美国家向30岁的斯诺等提供避难场所。不过，由于美国吊销了斯诺登的护照，让他离开莫斯科变得非常麻烦。

斯诺登说，他将与计划会面的人讨论他目前所处局面的下一步打算。自从他从香港飞抵莫斯科机场以来，他还没有公开露面。

斯诺登泄漏了由美国国家安全局执行的秘密监控计划的细节之后，美国想把他引渡回国接受间谍指控的审判。不过俄罗斯拒绝将他交给美国，同时敦促斯诺登离开俄罗斯到别的国家去。