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Pak lawyers to appeal against treason sentence of Osama operation doctor |
Pakistani lawyers have said they would appeal against
the conviction for treason handed to Dr Shakeel Afridi, the physician recruited
by the CIA to track down Osama Bin Laden. "We have requested the Khyber administration
to provide us with the documents related to the trial and conviction, and once
we get them, we will file an appeal in the office of the commissioner of the Frontier
Crimes Regulation," The Telegraph quoted lawyer Samiullah Afridi, as saying. Afridi
was given a 33-year sentence for helping the Central Investigative Agency locate
the Al-Qaeda chief by collecting DNA. He ran a fake vaccination programme designed
to collect DNA from Bin Laden's family from the compound in the town of Abbottabad
, where he was shot dead in a U.S. raid in May 2011. The lawyer, general secretary
of the Peace Movement, a civil society group against militancy, said his organisation
does not believe Afridi committed any crime, but had instead worked "to help eliminate
terrorism". Afridi's sentencing has exasperated the U.S. , leading the Senate
Appropriations Committee to vote to cut U.S. aid to Pakistan by a symbolic 33
million dollars-1 million dollars for each year of jail time.
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