Snowden to meet with Moscow activists

The Deputy Secretary of State says the US is "very disappointed" how China handled the Snowden case. Source: AAP

FUGITIVE US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has requested a meeting with leading rights activists and lawyers at the airport in Moscow where he has been stuck in transit for the past three weeks, Interfax news agency reports.

The agency said those invited included representatives of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Prominent Moscow lawyer Genrikh Padva confirmed to AFP that he had received such an invitation for a meeting at the airport Friday afternoon.

Sergei Nikitin, head of Amnesty International's Russia office, confirmed the meeting.

Snowden is thought to be holed up at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.

In Washington, the United States reprimanded China for not handing over Snowden.

In wide-ranging annual talks seen as important by Beijing, the United States openly criticised China for not extraditing Snowden - a former contractor who unveiled details of pervasive US online snooping - after he fled to Hong Kong.

President Barack Obama, in a statement on a meeting with the Chinese envoys, voiced "disappointment and concern" that Snowden was allowed to leave Hong Kong on June 23 for Russia, where he remains in limbo as he seeks asylum.

Deputy Secretary of State William Burns said the decision on Snowden "undermined" calls for co-operation between Obama and China's new President Xi Jinping when they spent a weekend at the Sunnylands resort in California.

State Councillor Yang Jiechi, speaking at a joint press event, said Hong Kong enjoyed autonomy and the special administrative region's decisions were based on its laws and "beyond reproach."

Earlier on Thursday, Russia's Interfax news agency said the US had stopped pressing Russia to extradite Snowden, quoting a source close to the situation.

"There has not been any request either through official or unofficial channels for several days now," the source told the agency.

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