American whistleblower Edward Snowden accused President Obama of blocking his asylum requests and said that he had requested 19 countries including China for asylum.
Requests have been made to India, China, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Venezuela, according to the Sky News.
The list was revealed Monday night after the American whistleblower in a statement accused the United States president of "deception" and said his government was using his "citizenship as a weapon" by revoking his passport.
"The president ordered his vice president to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions," said Edward Snowden in his statement, published on the Wikileaks.
"This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me," said Snowden.
The former CIA analyst, who exposed National Security Agency's surveillance programs of monitoring movements and communications of the people, fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia following extradition requests by the U.S. government.
Since arriving in Russia on June 23, he is holed up in the transit zone of the international airport in Moscow and has not been seen publicly.
Earlier, Ecuador confirmed an asylum request from the U.S. fugitive and said it would take weeks to process it.
Last Sunday, Snowden had applied for asylum in Russia and President Putin said "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must stop his activities aimed at inflicting damage on our American partners, no matter how strange it may sound coming from my lips."
"If he wants to go somewhere and there are those who would take him, he is welcome to do so," said Putin, adding Russia would not extradite him to the U.S. government.
