Sabrina de Sousa, the Ex CIA agent who is set to be extradited to Italy to serve a sentence for the kidnapping of Abu Omar recently gave an interview to VICE News. During this interview, she state that she has reached out to several US officials and public figures, such […]
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Sabrina de Sousa will be extradited to Italy
Sabrina de Sousa, a former CIA agent lost his last appeal before the Constitutional Court of Portugal. She faces a 4 year sentence for the kidnapping of the Egyptian imam Abu Omar in Milan. Ms. De Sousa was convicted in absentia by a Milan Court in 2009 together with more […]
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Filippo «Pippo» De Cristofaro, an Italian fugitive captured in Portugal
Filippo «Pippo» De Cristofaro is an Italian national sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and concealment. He was sentenced in 1991 by the Court of Appeals of Bolonia and he escaped twice from prison after that. The first time in 2007, when Mr. De Cristofaro escaped from a prison in Milan and […]
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Sabrina de Sousa, an Ex-CIA agent losses extradition battle in Portugal’s Supreme Court
Portugal’s Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Sabrina de Sousa to an extradition request by Italy. De Sousa is a CIA agent convicted in absentia for her part in an “extraordinary rendition” case in Italy. Sabrina De Sousa’s only possible recourse is to appeal the ruling to the Constitutional Court […]
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Portuguese Minister of Justice REJECTS extradition request
Francisca Van Dunem, the Minister of Justice in Portugal rejected the extradition request on the basis that Bhai Paramjit Singh had been granted asylum in the UK. Following rejection of the case, Bhai Paramjit Singh Pamma is expected to return to the UK soon. More information available here
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Portugal may extradite former CIA agent to Italy in rendition case
An appeals court in Lisbon, Portugal issued a decision Wednesday to extradite to Italy a former CIA counterterrorism officer who was one of nearly two-dozen agency operatives prosecuted and convicted on kidnapping charges in absentia in Milan in connection with the notorious rendition of a radical Egyptian cleric in 2003. Sabrina […]
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