Five others continue to languish in Hong Kong. His current partner and their two children have already been rejected for asylum by Hong Kong and lost their appeal of that decision. The third Snowden host, Ajith Pushpa Kumara, has also been rejected by Hong Kong, which denies over 99 per cent of asylum claims. “When we struggled in Hong Kong, had ups and downs, facing lots of difficulty, we always stuck together,” Rodel told a news conference. The minister or officials in a mission can expedite handling of specific files, but that happens very rarely, and usually in government-sponsored refugee cases, said Genest.

Source: National Post March 27, 2019 00:04 UTC