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Former Milan CIA station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, received eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted American defendants each received a five-year sentence. The Americans, all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents, ...
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Nasr was freed by Egyptian authorities after his case received publicity in Italy, but he has been unable to attend the trial in Milan or leave Egypt. He has filed a civil suit seeking $14 million in damages. ...
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Human rights advocates charge that renditions were the CIA's way to outsource the torture of prisoners to countries where it is permitted. The Milan proceedings have been a sore spot in relations between the United States and Italy. ...
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Judges in Italy are expected to hand down a verdict Wednesday in the first-ever trial examining the practice known as extraordinary rendition. Twenty-six Americans, mostly CIA agents, are being tried in absentia, charged with kidnapping ...
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The trial is the first by any government to scrutinize the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, which human rights advocates charge was the CIA's way to outsource the torture of prisoners to countries where it is practiced. The Milan proceedings
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In 2003, CIA agents snatched an Egyptian cleric in Milan, Italy, and flew him to Cairo, where he was, predictably, interrogated and tortured by Egyptian security forces. The case of Abu Omar would have been like many of the ...