Human rights court: CIA beat and sodomized wrongly detained German citizen [View all]
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Human rights court: CIA beat and sodomized wrongly detained German citizen
By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian
Thursday, December 13, 2012 19:54 EST
CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a historic judgment released on Thursday.
In a unanimous ruling, it also found Macedonia guilty of torturing, abusing, and secretly imprisoning Khaled el-Masri, a German of Lebanese origin allegedly linked to terrorist organisations.
Masri was seized in Macedonia in December 2003 and handed over to a CIA rendition team at Skopje airport and secretly flown to Afghanistan.
It is the first time the court has described CIA treatment meted out to terror suspects as torture.