Former CIA agent to do community service for cleric kidnap

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Former CIA agent to do community service for cleric kidnap
The Associated Press | Published — Monday 6 November 2017

Sabrina De Sousa. (Courtesy photo)
MILAN: A former CIA agent will do community service near Rome to complete her three-year sentence for taking part in the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan 14 years ago.
Sabrina De Sousa’s lawyer said that a court in Milan on Monday approved community service for his client to teach English to minors in Rome province.
De Sousa was picked up in Portugal in 2015 on a European arrest warrant, but Italy dropped its extradition request last March. Her seven-year sentence was reduced to three by a partial clemency and general amnesty.
De Sousa claims no wrongdoing in the kidnapping. Twenty-six Americans were tried in absentia, many under aliases. She is the only American to return to Italy.
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Former CIA agent to do community service for cleric kidnap
The Associated Press | Published — Monday 6 November 2017

Sabrina De Sousa. (Courtesy photo)
MILAN: A former CIA agent will do community service near Rome to complete her three-year sentence for taking part in the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan 14 years ago.
Sabrina De Sousa’s lawyer said that a court in Milan on Monday approved community service for his client to teach English to minors in Rome province.
De Sousa was picked up in Portugal in 2015 on a European arrest warrant, but Italy dropped its extradition request last March. Her seven-year sentence was reduced to three by a partial clemency and general amnesty.
De Sousa claims no wrongdoing in the kidnapping. Twenty-six Americans were tried in absentia, many under aliases. She is the only American to return to Italy.
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The Italian courts not only convicted the CIA agents in absentia but also the cleric!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/world/europe/italy-egyptian-cleric-convicted.html

Italy: Egyptian Cleric Convicted

An Egyptian cleric kidnapped in Italy in 2003 as part of the C.I.A.’s extraordinary rendition program was convicted in absentia of decade-old terrorism charges and sentenced to six years in prison by an Italian court on Friday, lawyers involved in the case said. The cleric, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, has been in Egyptsince resurfacing after his abduction and is unlikely to be returned to Italy to serve the sentence.

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Osama Moustafa Hassan NasrCreditEuropean Pressphoto Agency
His lawyer denied that his client was in any way associated with terrorism. Italian authorities had been investigating Mr. Nasr as a terrorism suspect for more than a year when he was abducted from a Milan street and transferred to Egypt via Germany as part of the C.I.A.’s program of moving terrorism suspects to third countries that permitted torture. Mr. Nasr claims that he was tortured in Egypt.

Twenty-six Americans were convicted of kidnapping in Italy; all were tried in absentia, and none served any prison time. Italian prosecutors reactivated the dormant case against Mr. Nasr in May to complete the proceedings interrupted by the kidnapping.