Italy Reduces Sentence for Ex-C.I.A. Officer Sought in Rendition Case<br />Mr. Mattarella’s statement announcing the reduction of the sentence said he had taken into account<br />that the United States had discontinued the rendition program and that her sentence was out of balance with the consequences others in the case had faced.<br />Ms. de Sousa was initially sentenced to seven years for kidnapping;<br />that was later reduced to four years, and President Sergio Mattarella reduced it on Tuesday to three.<br />Dario Bolognesi said that She’ll come to Italy to defend herself as a free woman,<br />28, 2017<br />ROME — A 10-year legal battle over the "extraordinary rendition" of a terrorism suspect by American intelligence agents seemed<br />to draw nearer to resolution on Tuesday, when the president of Italy commuted part of a prison sentence that one former C.I.A.<br />Ms. de Sousa’s lawyer, Mr. Bolognesi, said her sentence "was so clearly an injustice, when three others<br />were pardoned, state secrecy was invoked for some defendants, and yet she was facing prison.<br />The president’s decree opens the way for the former officer, Sabrina de Sousa, 61, to avoid imprisonment,<br />by serving her remaining sentence some other way, such as through monitored release or community service.<br />Julia Hall said that It is very worrying, and sends a clear message<br />that you can engage in what amount to be crimes under international law — torture and enforced disappearance — and get away with it,
