In 2010, leaked diplomatic documents revealed the efforts the United States used in an attempt to stop Italy from indicting the CIA agents, and that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi assured US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that he was 'working hard to resolve the situation' but that the Italy's judicial system was 'dominated by leftists'. Those convicted were also ordered to each pay 1 million Euros to Nasr and 500,000 Euros to Nasr's wife. Romano, at the time of the conviction commander of the 37th Training Group of the 37th Training Wing, and 21 of the American defendants received five-year prison sentences. įormer Milan CIA station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, received an eight-year prison sentence. Eight other American and Italian defendants were acquitted. Air Force (USAF) colonel and two Italian secret agents of the kidnap. On 4 November 2009, an Italian judge convicted in absentia 22 CIA agents, a U.S. In February 2016, the European Court of Human Rights condemned Italy over this affair and ordered Italy to pay €115,000 (£90,000 $127,000) in damages and expenses to Nasr and his wife, Nabila Ghali.

Nasr's case has been qualified by Swiss senator Dick Marty as a 'perfect example of extraordinary rendition', and in Italy prompted a series of investigations and intrigues within the Italian intelligence community and criminal justice system collectively referred to as the Imam Rapito (or 'kidnapped Imam') affair in the Italian press. Shortly after those calls were made he was re-arrested and placed back in prison. At the time of the calls he had been released on the orders of an Egyptian judge because of lack of evidence. He said he had been subjected to various depredations, tortured by beating and electric shocks to the genitals, raped, and eventually had lost hearing in one ear. He told them he had been rendered into the hands of Egypt's SSI at Tora Prison, twenty miles south of Cairo. In April 2004, while his incarceration had been downgraded to house arrest, Nasr placed several phone calls from Egypt to his family and friends. He was later transported to a prison in Egypt where, he states, he was tortured. On 17 February 2003, Nasr was abducted by CIA agents as he walked to his mosque in Milan for noon prayers, thus becoming an effective ghost detainee.

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