Title: Justice Department Statement on the Request to Hong Kong for Edward Snowden's Provisional Arrest
Date: June 26, 2013
Source URL: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-statement-request-hong-kong-edward-snowden-s-provisional-arrest
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The live DOJ page served an Akamai interstitial during recapture. This text fallback preserves the substance of the official statement as surfaced from the DOJ page metadata and search retrieval.

Preserved statement substance:

- The United States reiterated its request that Edward J. Snowden be provisionally arrested under the United States-Hong Kong Surrender Agreement.
- The statement said the Obama Administration was disappointed by Hong Kong's decision not to honor the U.S. request for provisional arrest.
- According to DOJ, the criminal complaint and arrest warrant were filed under seal on June 14, 2013, and the United States submitted its provisional-arrest request to Hong Kong on June 15.
- DOJ stated that Hong Kong authorities did not request additional information until June 21, after the charges were unsealed.
- The statement said the United States provided a formal memorandum on June 21 and was responding to Hong Kong's further questions on June 23 when it learned Snowden had been allowed to depart.
- DOJ rejected Hong Kong's asserted deficiencies as a valid basis for allowing Snowden to leave and said there was a legal basis under Hong Kong law to prevent his departure while the U.S. request was being processed.

Key official framing preserved from the DOJ statement:
"The United States government is disappointed by Hong Kong's decision not to honor the U.S. request for Edward Snowden's provisional arrest."