Manfred Gnjidic

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Manfred Gnjidic is a lawyer in Germany. In 2004 he was employed by Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen who was subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA in the years past. Gnjidic helped El-Masri launch a lawsuit against George Tenet and other Americans he alleges were involved in his rendition.

On December 8, 2005, following a meeting with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Dr Rice had privately acknowledged that El-Masri had been captured and transported in error. Rice then offered her account, that she had merely acknowledged that the United States had made some errors, without acknowledging that El-Masri's rendition was an instance of those errors.

Gnjidic has announced his intention to subpoena Merkel to testify in El-Masri's lawsuit.

He also represents Aleem Nasir, a German citizen interrogated by Pakistani, American and British intelligence agents during a two-month long extrajudicial detention in Pakistan. Gnjidic is investigating whether information gained under coercion during these interrogations may have been used to initiate a German investigation of Nasir.

References

  1. ^ Europeans Investigate CIA Role in Abductions: Suspects Possibly Taken To Nations That Torture, Washington Post March 12, 2005
  2. ^ Rice Brings Little Clarity to Europe, Der Spiegel, December 8, 2005
  3. ^ In Terror Detention, Glimpses of Shadowy World in Pakistan, New York Times, September 24, 2007

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