Edward Snowden released a statement on Wikileaks addressing the United States' attempt to eliminate his asylum options from Moscow on Monday, saying the Obama administration is 'afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised.'

The National Security Agency whistleblower is believed to have been holed up in the transit area of a Moscow airport for more than a week now and is considered to be "stateless" since the United States revoked his citizenship.

"For decades the United States of America has been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum," Edward Snowden wrote in his Wikileaks post.

"In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be."

Edward Snowden is currently seeking asylum in 15 different countries, including Russia.