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Italy high court upholds sentences of 23 former CIA agents in rendition case

September 19, 2012 03:55:00 PM

The Italian Court of Cassation on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 former CIA officers for the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Former Milan CIA...

March 27, 2012 11:38:29 AM

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday asked EU member states to reconsider their involvement in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program of forced transfer and secret detention....

January 6, 2012 09:59:39 AM

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former State Department employee demanding diplomatic immunity against charges she participated in the...

December 16, 2010 09:14:43 AM

An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 former CIA agents for the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, increasing their sentences. Former Milan CIA station chief...

November 4, 2009 12:24:00 PM

Judge Oscar Magi of the Fourth Chamber of the Court of Milan on Wednesday convicted 23 former CIA agents for the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan...

September 2, 2009 09:36:00 AM

Lawyers for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former State Department official seeking diplomatic immunity against Italian charges of...

March 19, 2009 10:50:00 AM

The Italian judge presiding over the kidnapping trail of 26 Americans and seven Italians on Wednesday postponed the trial until April 22. Judge Oscar Magi suspended the case in order to allow Italy's Constitutional...

March 10, 2009 03:12:00 PM

The Italian government on Tuesday asked the country's Constitutional Court to dismiss kidnapping charges against US and Italian intelligence officers, arguing that allowing the case to go forward would harm the country's national security interests. The case...

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A Call to End All Renditions

February 10, 2009 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that instead of leaving the door open for the CIA to continue to engage in the rendition of terrorism suspects to other countries so long as the process...

December 4, 2008 11:05:00 AM

Italian Judge Oscar Magi on Wednesday suspended the in absentia trial of 26 Americans , most of them suspected of working for the CIA, and five former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition [JURIST...

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On May 7, 1945, General Gustav Jodl, on behalf of Germany, signed an unconditional surrender, effectively ending World War II in Europe. The surrender was formally accepted by the Allied Powers the next day, May 8, which came to be known as Victory in Europe (VE) Day.

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