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 ...

Ferreira said he did not have details of the ruling. In Portugal, extradition cases are conducted in secret. Ferreira said Wright intends to remain in Portugal. A Lisbon judge decided against ...

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 ...

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. (Nikki Kahn/The ...

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

A former CIA agent is waiting in her Portugal apartment for a knock on the door that could come at any time and mean the possible end to her freedom.

Portugal’s Supreme Court twice rejected US appeals of that decision. “This case is now closed,” said senior Judge Luis Maria Vaz das Neves of Portugal’s Constitutional Court.

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 ...