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 a last-minute reprieve from extradition. "But this is not over yet, as I still have the process in Italy, and we have to see how it goes." In a later telephone interview with Reuters, de Sousa said her Italian lawyer had applied for her to perform three years of community service in Italy as an alternative to jail. De Sousa said the Trump administration did “an excellent job” of negotiating her partial pardon with Italy. “I need the rest to go away so I can proceed with my life.”The partial pardon by Italian President Sergio Mattarella reduced her sentence to three years from four.

Source: Egypt Independent March 02, 2017 09:06 UTC