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hong: The lawyers want Ottawa to accept the families on an exceptional basis while their applications are processed, according to Hamilton Spectator. Snowden fled to Hong Kong to avoid prosecution over the leak of classified material about United States government surveillance programs. Our clients are specifically targeted by Hong Kong's immigration authorities, who are actively trying to get our clients out of its territory and back to their home countries where they will be apprehended, tortured, or killed, lawyer Marc-Andre Seguin told a Montreal news conference. A congressional inquiry into the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor concluded the leaks compromised national security. The lawyers told a news conference March 9 of their intention to bring Snowden's guardian angels to Canada. The families in question have been publicly quoted as saying they hid Snowden in their apartments for a few weeks in 2013 before he went to Russia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.