The Portuguese supreme court
has rejected an appeal by Sabrina De Sousa, an ex-CIA agent
involved in the abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Omar
Nasr in Milan in 2003, against extradition to Italy, AP reported
on Monday. The agency reported that a supreme court official
said De Sousa's only recourse now is to appeal to Portugal's
Constitutional Court. De Sousa is a 60-year-old who was born in
India but has dual American-Portuguese citizenship.
Portuguese authorities seized her passport, pending a
decision on her extradition, after she tried to leave the
country in October to visit her mother in India. She was
among 22 CIA agents convicted in Italy in the case of the
rendition of the Egyptian cleric, an Islamist suspected of
recruiting jihadi fighters. De Sousa faces six years in prison
if extradited to Italy. The Nasr case was the world's first
judicial examination of the controversial practice of
extraordinary rendition in the so-called war on terror.
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