HONG KONG — Politicians were asking for answers from the Obama administration on Thursday about allegations from an American computer analyst that a U.S. secret surveillance program hacked into Hong Kong computer systems.
Two political parties staged separate protests at the U.S. Consulate on Thursday, with the New Forum demonstrating against the alleged U.S. hacking in Hong Kong and China and the League of Social Democrats voicing support for Edward Snowden.
About a dozen people showed up for the protests; a larger one is planned for Saturday.
Civil Party leader Alan Leong Kah-kit said Snowden has raised a serious allegation and that Hong Kong should take the issue up with President Obama.
"The Hong Kong government should take the issue up and ask Obama whether it has been the case. It is the least it should do at the moment," he told the South China Morning Postnewspaper.
Snowden, 29, fled to Hong Kong with a trove of classified material he allegedly stole from his job for a consulting firm doing work for the U.S. National Security Agency. He revealed to the news media details of an NSA program that sweeps up data on phone calls and e-mails in the United States to identify patterns of possible communications between terrorists.
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