Options narrow for ex-CIA agent's fight against extradition

Source: Associated Press

Options narrow for ex-CIA agent's fight against extradition

Barry Hatton, Associated Press

Updated 12:50 pm, Tuesday, April 26, 2016

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A former CIA operative has one last chance to avoid being extradited from Portugal to Italy to serve a prison sentence for her part in the U.S. extraordinary renditions program, Portuguese court officials said Tuesday.

A judge at Portugal's Constitutional Court last week ruled that Sabrina de Sousa had no constitutional grounds to reverse earlier decisions by a lower court and the Supreme Court to send her back to Italy.

De Sousa now has 10 days after being officially notified of that decision to ask the Constitutional Court to appoint a three-judge panel to review its decision, officials at the Constitutional Court and the lower court told The Associated Press. The officials didn't know on what date she was notified.

De Sousa was among 26 Americans convicted in absentia for the 2003 kidnapping in Milan of terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. She was arrested last October at Lisbon Airport on a European warrant.




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