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Former CIA employee Edward Snowden is facing 20 years imprisonment in his country, Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian State Duma international affairs committee, said with reference to U.S. experts. 

“The U.S. has said it will not execute Snowden. American experts told me he is facing 20 years in prison. But his father doesn’t believe in fair trial,” Pushkov said on Twitter.

Edward Snowden’s father, Lon Snowden, said earlier that, if he were his son, he would try to find a safe heaven, as he does not believe in fair trial in the U.S.