Sabrina De Sousa

Sousa was born in Goa, Portuguese India, and grew up in Mumbai, India. She is a citizen of Portugal and the United States, having obtained her U.S. citizenship in 1985. == Role in the kidnapping and torture of Abu Omar ==

The underlying case is called the "Abu Omar case" or the "Imam Rapito affair". Abu Omar, also known as Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, is a Muslim cleric, who on February 17, 2003, was abducted by the CIA, transported to the Aviano Air Base, from which he was transferred to Egypt, where he was interrogated (and allegedly tortured). The Italian government originally denied having played any role in the abduction, but Italian prosecutors Armando Spataro and Ferdinand Enrico Pomarici indicted two dozen American and Italian government employees and agents. One of those were Sousa. She is not alleged to have kidnapped Omar herself, but is said to have "helped make false documents to mislead investigators." She claims an alibi that she was "vacationing at a ski resort nearly 130 miles away in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy." serving under diplomatic cover. She claims to be a diplomat. She was a State Department employee, until she resigned in February 2009. She was detained at the Lisbon airport in Portugal on October 5, 2015 and her passport confiscated, based on an outstanding warrant from her 2009 conviction. by the Portuguese Supreme Court, which upheld the extradition order. In an email to the Associated Press De Souza's lawyers wrote that Portuguese authorities took her into custody on February 20, 2017, and that she would be transferred to Italian custody within a few days. On February 28, 2017, Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, commuted Sousa's sentence, to just three years. ==See also==