LISBON: Portugal will extradite to Italy within days a former CIA agent convicted over the 2003 abduction of a radical Egyptian imam, ending a long legal tussle, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
Sabrina de Sousa, 60, was convicted in absentia by an Italian court in 2009 over the kidnapping of Abu Omar from a Milan street in an operation allegedly led jointly by the CIA and the Italian intelligence services.
The trial of de Sousa and 22 others secured what were the first legal convictions in the world against people involved in the CIA’s extraordinary renditions programme that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks.
De Sousa, who has dual Portuguese-US nationality, was arrested Monday and was due to be taken to a jail in the northern city of Porto, her lawyer Manuel Magalhaes Silva said.
Portuguese judicial authorities in January 2016 ordered that she be extradited to Italy, but a series of appeals delayed the procedure. She was initially arrested at Lisbon airport in October 2015 under a European warrant after the Italian court convicted her, 21 fellow CIA operatives and a US soldier over the kidnapping.
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