https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italy on Tuesday granted a partial pardon to a former CIA agent found guilty over the kidnap of an Egyptian imam in 2003, in a case that has sparked a long legal tussle. https://www.thelocal.it/20170301/italy-cuts-sentence-sabrina-de-sousa-milan-egypt Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:07:07 +0100 italy-cuts-sentence-sabrina-de-sousa-milan-egypt Portugal will extradite to Italy within days a former CIA agent convicted over the 2003 abduction of a radical Egyptian imam, ending a long legal tussle, her lawyer said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170222/an-ex-cia-agent-convicted-of-abducting-an-imam-will-finally-be-extradited-to-italy Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:49:37 +0100 an-ex-cia-agent-convicted-of-abducting-an-imam-will-finally-be-extradited-to-italy An Eritrean man extradited to Italy on suspicion of being the head of a migrant trafficking ring has told investigators he is not the man they want, his lawyer said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160610/eritrean-denies-being-top-migrant-trafficker-lawyer Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:42:57 +0200 eritrean-denies-being-top-migrant-trafficker-lawyer A former CIA agent convicted in Italy for kidnapping an Egyptian imam under the agency's secret renditions programme has made a last-ditch appeal against her extradition from Portugal, the country's onstitutional Court said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160412/ex-cia-agent-in-last-ditch-bid-to-avoid-extradition-to-italy Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:45:26 +0200 ex-cia-agent-in-last-ditch-bid-to-avoid-extradition-to-italy A Portuguese court has approved the extradition to Italy of a former CIA agent convicted over the kidnapping of an Egyptian imam as part of the agency's secret renditions programme, her lawyer said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160115/portuguese-court-backs-ex-cia-agents-extradition-to-italy Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:10:16 +0100 portuguese-court-backs-ex-cia-agents-extradition-to-italy Italy is among the many countries that was complicit in the US government torture programme, according to a report released on Tuesday, although it is also the only country where officials involved in the CIA programme have been convicted. https://www.thelocal.it/20141210/italycomplicit-in-us-torture-programme Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:30:00 +0100 italycomplicit-in-us-torture-programme Panama's foreign minister on Monday defended his government's handling of an Italian request for the arrest and extradition of a former CIA station chief wanted for the kidnapping of an Egyptian militant. https://www.thelocal.it/20130723/panama-defends-handling-of-ex-cia-agent Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:33:00 +0200 panama-defends-handling-of-ex-cia-agent https://www.thelocal.it/20130720/italy-deeply-disappointed-over-cia-lady-affair Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:27:00 +0200 italy-deeply-disappointed-over-cia-lady-affair A former CIA station chief in Milan, sentenced to nine years in jail for the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam, has been arrested in Panama, the Italian justice ministry said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130719/cia-agent-arrested-over-italy-abduction Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:48:00 +0200 cia-agent-arrested-over-italy-abduction