CIA ‘tortured and sodomised’ Terror Suspect, European Court Rules

Richard Norton-Taylor
Guardian.co.uk
December 13, 2012

CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a historic judgment released on Thursday.

In a unanimous ruling, it also found Macedonia guilty of torturing, abusing, and secretly imprisoning Khaled el-Masri, a German of Lebanese origin allegedly linked to terrorist organisations.

Masri was seized in Macedonia in December 2003 and handed over to a CIA “rendition team” at Skopje airport and secretly flown to Afghanistan.

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This article was posted: Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 11:08 am

Tags: terrorism

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