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by mehwoot 4739 days ago
A government will declare whatever it can get away with as legal in order to advance it's agenda (in this case, not getting involved). Remember the Obama administration claims that all the NSA spying is legal anyway. Doesn't mean it is. Doesn't mean there was no legal basis to arrest him.

If Hong Kong even remotely wanted Snowden arrested, he would have been. They wanted nothing to do with the entire matter and so stalled a little bit to let him go.