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Line 84: A number of the alleged detainees listed above were transferred to the U.S.-run [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp|Guantanamo Bay]] prison on Cuba in the fall of 2006. With this publicly announced act, the United States government de facto also acknowledged the existence of secret prisons abroad in which these prisoners were held. ====Khaled el-Masri ==== {{main|Khalid El-Masri}} Khalid El-Masri is a [[Germany|German]] citizen who was detained, flown to [[Afghanistan]], interrogated and allegedly tortured by the CIA for several months, and then released in remote Albania in May of 2004 without having been charged with any offense. This was apparently due to a misunderstanding that arose concerning the similarity of the spelling of El-Masri's name with the spelling of suspected terrorist [[Khalid al-Masri]]. Germany had issued warrants for 13 people suspected to be involved with the abduction, but dropped them in September, 2007. On October 9, 2007, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] declined without comment to hear an appeal of El-Masri's civil lawsuit against the United States, letting stand an earlier verdict by a federal district court judge, which was upheld by the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit]]. Those courts had agreed with the government that the case could not go forward without exposing [[state secrets]]. In May of 2007, Masri was committed to a psychiatric institution after he was arrested in the southern German city of Neu-Ulm on suspicion of arson. His attorney blamed his troubles on the CIA, saying the kidnapping and detention had left Masri a "psychological wreck."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100900605_pf.html |title=Court Declines Case of Alleged CIA Torture Victim |first=Robert |last=Barnes |publisher=The Washington Post |date=2007-10-09 |accessdate=2007-10-09}}</ref> ====Imam Rapito ==== {{Main|Imam Rapito}} The Imam Rapito affair refers to the alleged abduction and transfer by the CIA to Egypt of the Imam of Milan, and alleged terrorist, [[Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr]], also known as Abu Omar, and tortured and abused. Hassan Nasr was released by Egyptian justice in February 2007, who considered his detention "unfounded," and has not been indicted for any alleged crime in Italy. Ultimately, twenty-six Americans and nine Italians have been indicted with a trial pending. ==Suspected black sites== | |||