Pirate Party: Brighter Future Party

Brighter Future Party: Ogmundur Jonasson, whose liberal Left-Green Party is backing the proposal along with the Pirate Party and Brighter Future Party, put the issue before the Judicial Affairs Committee, but the idea received minimal support, according to CBC. But to apply for asylum in Iceland, Snowden would have to reach the island nation's soil. Icelandic citizenship helped Bobby Fischer escape U.S. prosecution in 2005. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters Icelandic lawmakers introduced a proposal in Parliament on Thursday to grant immediate citizenship to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who admits to revealing key details of U.S. surveillance activities. Snowden is believed to be stuck in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from more than a dozen countries. At one point, he told the Guardian newspaper that he was inclined to seek asylum in a country that shared his values and that "the nation that most encompasses this is Iceland." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.