Ex- CIA agent to be handed over to Italy for prison term

LISBON, Portugal — A former CIA agent will be handed over to Italy in the coming days to serve a four- year prison sentence after being convicted of involvement in a U. S. program that kidnapped suspects for interrogation, a lawyer said Tuesday.

Sabrina de Sousa spent the night in a women’s prison near Lisbon after a Portuguese court ordered police to extradite her, her Portuguese lawyer, Manuel Magalhaes e Silva, said in an interview.

He said she was detained Monday after a two- year fight against extradition and will be put on a plane once formalities between Portuguese and Italian police are concluded.

De Sousa, 61, was among 26 Americans convicted of kidnapping suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nas, also known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003. She denied involvement in the abduction.

De Sousa lost several appeals against extradition since her arrest at Lisbon Airport in October 2015 on a European warrant.