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The whistleblower fled east after leaking top secret documents revealing the US government's spying practices targeted people all all over the world.

But after a pair of cryptic tweets many feared Snowden had been executed by Russia or killed off by American agents before he could dump another bombshell of secret documents.

His lawyer his now spoken up and claimed Snowden is alive and well.

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Anatoly Kucherena, who has represented Snowden since 2013, said: "I can authoritatively say that he is alive and well, he is living in Russia and is busy with his favourite work.

"Again, we are seeing certain speculations about Edward Snowden.

"Of course, there probably are people interested in speculating on this matter who have been doing this for the last several years."

Snowden faces 30 years in prison on charges of espionage and theft of government property if he ever returns to the United States after spilling the beans on the US's National Security Agency .

He fled to Russia and has been granted three years amnesty by Vladimir Putin.

Conspiracy theorists suspected the whistleblower was dead after he tweeted "it is time" followed by 64 apparently random letters and numbers .

The rumours about the 33-year-old's whereabouts comes after internet theorists went crazy when they believed fashion blogger Marina Joyce had been kidnapped by ISIS.