
Pressure has been building on the ex-Soviet nation's longtime leader since the August 9 election, which he claims to have won with 80 percent of the vote.

Meng, the Chinese telecom giant's chief financial officer, was arrested on a US warrant in December 2018 during a stopover in Vancouver.

The news came after he announced few days ago in a golf course press briefing that he will think about pardoning Snowden.

In 1996, Mohammad Najibullah was brutally murdered in Kabul when the Taliban entered the city that year. His body was hanged his body from a traffic light pole outside the Afghan Presidential palace.