Skopje, Macedonia: Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen, said he was abducted by the US intelligence agency CIA and posted to Afghanistan and tortured. He appealed Europe’s human rights court to provide justice to him in this regard.
He said he was kidnapped from Macedonia in 2003, and was brutally tortured and interrogated at a prison run by the agency in Afghanistan for more than four months after abduction, AP reported.
Masri took his case to the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday.
“Mr. El-Masri has spent the last eight years seeking legal redress for the crimes that were committed against him,” said James Goldston, executive director of the Open Justice Initiative.
Open Justice Initiative is a rights group that campaigns against the US extraordinary rendition practice, enabling the US apprehension and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one state to another, Press TV reported.
He noted, “There is abundant evidence, including data on CIA flights to and from [Macedonia’s capital] Skopje.”
CIA released Masri after realising he mistakenly abducted. He is also suing his government for having a hand behind the episode. But Macedonian authorities deny his allegations.
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