Peshawar, Apr. 28 (ANI): Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, who reportedly helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden, has gone on hunger strike in Central Jail Peshawar 'in protest against the jail administration's ill-treatment'.
Afridi, through a fake vaccination campaign, had provided a lead for the US Navy Seals operation in which the al Qaeda chief was killed in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011.
He was arrested for his alleged links to the CIA and was charged and punished under 40-FCR for 33-year jail for having links to the banned religious outfit Lashkar-i-Islam, reports The Dawn.
Afridi's brother Jamil Afridi on Saturday told that the authorities were not allowing them to meet Shakil and since August 2012, they had no information about their brother. He alleged that jail authorities are not providing Afridi with proper treatment and medicine.
Afridi's counsel Samiullah Afridi said that for the last six months no one had been allowed to meet the doctor. He said denying the right of consultation and meeting with legal advisor and family is an injustice and Afridi should be allowed to meet his friends.
Commenting on Afridi's arrest and conviction, Samiullah said, he was arrested for his alleged support in the Osama bin Laden operation but when the government failed to prove anything, they convicted him with out any trial which has no legal justification.
(ANI)
|
|
Comments:
