Damages for cleared suspect
Sweden will pay about $502,000 in compensation to an exonerated Egyptian terrorism suspect who was handed over to CIA agents and deported in 2001, the government said.
Chancellor of Justice Goran Lambertz said the Swedish state had reached a settlement with Muhammed Alzery’s lawyers. He also said Sweden believes Alzery’s assertion that he was tortured in Egypt.
Alzery was handed over to U.S. agents in Stockholm six years ago, taken to Egypt and imprisoned on terrorism charges. He was released in 2003 without trial.
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