El-Masri came to the U.S. this week on a special visa to attend a court hearing about his lawsuit against the former director of the CIA, George Tenet, CIA agents whose identities are not known ...

The new case is the latest in el-Masri's nine-year judicial odyssey, which has so far involved the legal systems of at least four countries and could cast a sliver of sunlight on one of the CIA's ...

The IACHR deemed Mr. El-Masri's petition as admissible on April 15th, 2016 and in November of 2017, the ACLU filed a request for a hearing on the merits of the case during the 166th Extraordinary ...

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 ...

The El-Masri cable suggests that the Embassy in Berlin was trying to protect thirteen CIA agents then subject to an arrest warrant. These agents’ true names are now known, and an arrest warrant ...

Khalid El-Masri, speaking December 6, 2005. For more on this case, we are joined by El-Masri’s attorney: Ben Wizner, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.

The lawsuit charged that former CIA Director George Tenet violated U.S. and universal human rights laws when he authorized agents to abduct Mr. El-Masri, beat him, drug him, and transport him to a ...