(ANSA) - Lisbon, January 15 - A Lisbon court has approved
the extradition to Italy of Sabrina De Sousa, an ex-CIA agent
who was convicted of involvement in the abduction Muslim cleric
Hassan Mustafa Omar Nasr from Milan in 2003.
De Sousa, who has American and Portuguese nationality, 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's lawyer told the Associated Press that she
intends to appeal to the Portuguese supreme court and, if that
fails, to the Constitutional Court.
Nasr, whose case led to the world's first judicial
examination of the controversial practice of rendition in the
so-called war on terror, got a prison term of six years for
international terrorism in December 2013.
De Sousa, who faces six years in prison if extradited to
Italy, has said in interviews the operation had been "approved
by Washington" and that she had been "abandoned" by her
superiors.
Portuguese authorities seized her passport, pending a
decision on her extradition, after she tried to leave the
country in October.
Court OKs ex-CIA agent's extradition
De Sousa faces six years in prison in Italy