Manfred Gnjidic
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Manfred Gnjidic is a lawyer
Lawyer
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 in Germany
Germany
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In 2004 he was employed by Khalid El-Masri
Khalid El-Masri
Khalid El-Masri is a German citizen who was kidnapped in the Republic of Macedonia, flown to Afghanistan, allegedly beaten, stripped, raped, and interrogated and tortured by the CIA for several months as a part of the War on Terror, and then released...

, a German citizen who claims he was subjected to extraordinary rendition
Extraordinary rendition
Extraordinary rendition is the abduction and illegal transfer of a person from one nation to another. "Torture by proxy" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the United States and the United Kingdom have transferred suspected terrorists to other countries in order to torture the...

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Gnjidic helped El-Masri launch a lawsuit against George Tenet
George Tenet
George John Tenet was the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University....

 and other Americans he alleges were involved in his rendition.

On December 8, 2005, following a meeting with United States Secretary of State
United States Secretary of State
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 Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
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, German Chancellor
Chancellor of Germany
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 Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000, and chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary coalition from 2002 to 2005.From 2005 to 2009 she led a...

 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.

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