(ANSA) - Rome, December 23 - President Sergio Mattarella on
Wednesday pardoned two CIA operatives who abducted a Muslim
cleric from Milan in 2003 under the U.S.
Nasr, whose case led to the world's first judicial
examination of the controversial practice of extraordinary
rendition in the so-called war on terror, got a prison term of
six years for international terrorism in December 2013.
In September 2012, Italy's Supreme Court upheld the
convictions of 22 CIA agents and a former US air force officer,
Joseph L. Romano, for the abduction.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano later pardoned Romano.
Also on Wednesday, Mattarella pardoned Massimo Romani, who
was sentenced to 40 years in prison on drug possession charges
in Thailand in 2008.
Romani began serving his term in a Thai prison, and was
extradited to prison in Italy in August 2014.
Mattarella pardons Seldon Lady, Medero
Two CIA operatives convicted of abducting Abu Omar in 2003