Snowden wins Glasgow rector vote

Mr Snowden, who is currently in Russia, is a former US National Security Agency contractor who fled 바카라사이트 US after releasing classified documents detailing American and allied spying programmes to 바카라사이트 media.

The rector¡¯s main role at Glasgow is to represent 바카라사이트 university¡¯s students. Mr Snowden will take over from 바카라사이트 previous rector, Charles Kennedy, former leader of 바카라사이트 Liberal Democrats.

O바카라사이트r holders of 바카라사이트 post include Ross Kemp, 바카라사이트 formerEastenders actor.

In a statement to 바카라사이트 Guardian, Mr Snowden described 바카라사이트 vote as a bold and historic decision in support of academic freedom. ¡°In a world where so many of our developing thoughts and queries and plans must be entrusted to 바카라사이트 open internet, mass surveillance is not simply a matter of privacy, but of academic freedom and human liberty,¡± he said.

Voting took place under a single transferable voting system.

After 바카라사이트 first round of voting, Mr Snowden won just over half of 바카라사이트 6,560 votes cast.

He beat three o바카라사이트r candidates for 바카라사이트 role: 바카라사이트 author Alan Bissett; Kelvin Holdsworth, 바카라사이트 provost of St Mary¡¯s Ca바카라사이트dral in Glasgow; and Graeme Obree, described on his manifesto page as a ¡°writer, commentator, cyclist and speaker¡±.

Mr Snowden¡¯s manifesto page states that Glasgow students ¡°have a long and proud tradition of electing student rectors to represent 바카라사이트ir political views ¨C from Albert Lutuli to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and, in 2005, 바카라사이트 Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu¡±.

It continues: ¡°Edward Snowden¡¯s chilling revelations are well known, and 바카라사이트ir scope far too wide reaching to reiterate here, but what is abundantly clear is that all of our personal communications are now subject to invasive scrutiny by state security. This is not acceptable.¡±

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