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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The wife of American whistleblower Edward Snowden gave birth to a son, photos posted on her social media page on Saturday showed.
“Happy holidays from our newly extended family,” wrote Lindsay Mills, sharing photos on Instagram of the couple holding the newborn.
Snowden, 37, who fled the United States after leaking secret files from the National Security Agency in 2013 and received asylum in Russia, said last month that he would seek Russian citizenship along with his wife for the sake of their future family. .
The couple said they feared being separated from their son, in an era of pandemics and closed borders, if they did not become American and Russian citizens.
Russia has already granted Snowden permanent residency rights, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said earlier this year, a vital step toward Russian citizenship.
US authorities have for years wanted Snowden to return to face criminal trial on espionage charges filed in 2013.
“As we expected, there is a new addition to their family. Edward and Lindsay have had a child. The mother and baby are in excellent health,” the Russian news agency Interfax reported on Saturday, citing Kucherena.
(Reporting by Polina Ivanova; Editing by Mike Harrison)
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