Court hears case of man who claims he was kidnapped, taken to secret prison. May 17, 2012 — -- Nearly a decade after a German man claimed he was abducted, spirited to Afghanistan and beaten ...

Khaled El-Masri says he was mistaken for an al Qaeda suspect. Dec. 13, 2012 — -- Nearly a decade after a German man claimed he was snatched off the street, held in secret and tortured as part ...

After being mistakenly abducted in Macedonia and detained in a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan, Khaled El-Masri told his interrogators that his ongoing detention was like “a Kafka novel.” A cable to ...

The subject was the criminal investigation into the kidnapping and torture of Khaled El-Masri, a German greengrocer from the town of Neu-Ulm, seized in a case of mistaken identity. Koenig, aware that ...

A US court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a German citizen who says he was kidnapped and beaten by the CIA. Khaled el-Masri aimed to sue former CIA chief George Tenet and other officials for their ...

NEW YORK - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has accepted a petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, an innocent victim of the CIA's ...