A German citizen of Lebanese descent has taken the German justice ministry to court in a bid to force the government to pursue the extradition of 13 CIA agents who allegedly kidnapped him. 44-year-old Khaled al-Masri says he was abducted in Macedonia in December 2003, flown to a US detention centre in the Afghan capital Kabul in a practice known as "extraordinary rendition" and tortured.
Masri was released in 2004. Last year, the justice ministry decided not to pursue arrest warrants issued for the suspected CIA agents. A group of German and American civil rights lawyers has filed the suit with a Berlin administrative court.
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