updated Tue. March 19, 2024
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Deutsche Welle
April 6, 2018
The German government is yet to respond to Macedonia's apology to Khalid al-Masri, the German-Lebanese man who was wrongfully seized and then abused as part of the US Central Intelligence Agency's rendition program 14 years ago. Al-Masri, a German citizen living at the time in the southern town ofÃâà...
Boing Boing
March 13, 2018
Macedonia helped CIA kidnap and torture a German they mistook for a terrorist. Macedonia kidnapped a German citizen called Khalid al-Masri (previously, previously) and sent him to the CIA, mistaking him for a similarly named terror suspect; the CIA tortured him in Afghanistan and held him even after theyÃâà...
gulfnews.com
March 9, 2018
Mekhennet described her investigation and interview with a wrongly detained German citizen of Lebanese decent, Khalid Al Masri, in her book. Juggling both her studies in Frankfurt and her job as a journalist, Mekhennet said she worked hard to eventually prove Al Masri's arrest was a case of mistakenÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
February 11, 2018
Welcome to Stadthaushotel in Hamburg, where the customer is king and the staff is truly special. Many of the employees in Europe's first 'integration hotel' have mental or physical disabilities. Claudia Peterson has Down syndrome and a qualified position. Without her work, the hotel would cease to run.
Mumbai Mirror
January 22, 2018
At this edition of All That Jazz, catch Latvian singer Ronja Burve perform soulful and funky jazz songs with her band. Burve studied at the Riga Dome Choir School in Latvia, after which she moved to The Netherlands to pursue a degree at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Since then, Burve hasÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 13, 2017
Germany silent after CIA victim al-Masri receives Macedonian apology 06.04.2018. The German government has not yet responded in kind to the apology offered by Macedonia to a German citizen abused by the CIA in 2003. The wrongfully imprisoned Khalid al-Masri says he was tortured while in custody.
Deutsche Welle
November 3, 2017
CIA documents reveal details about wrongfully renditioned German. New documents released by the CIA have revealed details about the detention of Khalid al-Masri, a German-Lebanese man mistaken for an al Qaeda member in 2003. He is yet to be given compensation or an apology from the US.
Deutsche Welle
June 8, 2017
The Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) has called on German federal prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant against Gina Haspel, the deputy director of the CIA, who was appointed on February 2. The ECCHR first pressed charges against unknown CIA operativesÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
July 11, 2016
New documents released by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have revealed the Kafkaesque details of one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in the CIA's extraordinary rendition program during the hunt for al Qaeda. Khalid al-Masri, a German-Lebanese man, living at the time in theÃâà...
American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
December 15, 2014
The CIA's unlawful detention and torture of Khaled El-Masri has left him "a broken man," according to a McClatchy article published yesterday. The story of El-Masri, an ACLU client, is especially poignant following the release of the Senate torture report summary – and the CIA response to it. The reportsÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
December 13, 2014
Khalid al Masri is a broken man today. A decade after the CIA snatched him by mistake, flew him half way around the world in secret, and questioned him as part of its detention and interrogation program, he's yet to recover. He's abandoned his home. He no longer is part of the lives of his wife or children.
Balkan Insight
December 31, 1999
Albania has been criticised, however, for helping the CIA to cover its tracks in the rendition case of a German citizen, Khalid al-Masri. Albania is one of few countries that maintains a 2003 bilateral immunity agreement with the United States, granting exemptions for US citizens from the jurisdiction of theÃâà...
