A retired CIA officer has been taken into custody in Portugal and faces extradition to Italy within days to serve a four-year sentence for her role in the 2003 kidnapping of a radical Muslim cleric.

LISBON (Reuters) – A former CIA officer convicted of involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Italy was released by authorities in Lisbon, Portugal on Wednesday after winning ...

In Portugal, extradition cases are conducted in secret. Ferreira said Wright intends to remain in Portugal. A Lisbon judge decided against Wright's extradition in November, ...

But in June 2016, Italy sent Portugal a letter saying De Sousa's conviction was final, and no retrial would be granted. In a move that shocked De Sousa and others in the intelligence community ...

LISBON, Portugal – The lawyer for captured American fugitive George Wright on Thursday filed his arguments in a Lisbon court against his client's extradition to the U.S., saying he should be ...

A former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officer living in Portugal lost her final appeal there to avoid going to prison in Italy for her part in a U.S. program that involved kidnapping suspected ...

Sabrina De Sousa at her former home in Washington in 2012. She faces extradition from Portugal to Italy for her alleged role in the CIA abduction of Abu Omar in 2003 in Milan.

LISBON, Portugal — Portugal won’t extradite fugitive George Wright for crimes he committed four decades ago, after the US ran out of possibilities to appeal ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday, prima facie, observed that Abu Salem, convicted in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, has ...

Her case, she said, could hurt U.S. intelligence operations by discouraging young CIA officers from going under official U.S. cover because the Obama administration refused to assert on her behalf ...

Portugal’s Supreme Court has denied an appeal by a former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operative against extradition to Italy in connection with her role in a kidnapping under the U.S ...