Russia has still not received substantiated request on Snowden extradition from U.S. - lawyer
MOSCOW. July 31 (Interfax) - Russia has still not received a substantiated and legally correct request from the United States on former CIA employee Edward Snowden's extradition, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says.
"If you want [Snowden to be extradited], please refer to some law provision and send us a proper document, which should be correct in legal terms. But there is none," Kucherena said in an interview with Rossiya-24 TV channel.
"The 'give him back' principle is absolutely unfair and wrong. When we ask these questions, we don't receive any answers," Kucherena said, adding that Snowden is "not a thing but a human being."
"America may ask for [Snowden's] extradition, but there should be a certain procedure. And besides, we can't extradite him, because we don't have a law on extradition," he said.
"But you should at least formalize such a request and say exactly what you are accusing him of," he said.