Hero doctor who helped US get Osama Bin Laden now on hunger strike in Pakistani prison

I wish we were doing more to get this man out of prison in Pakistan. If anyone deserves asylum, it’s Dr. Shakil Afridi:

DAILY MAIL – The brave Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA to capture Osama Bin Laden is still rotting inside jail two year’s after the terrorist’s death.

Dr Shakil Afridi was sentenced to 33 years in prison in June last year after a Pakistani court found him guilty of treason for conspiring against Pakistan.

Denied access to his family and legal team, Dr Afridi is now on hunger strike – he stopped eating days after an April 25 court date.
Dr Afridi’s next court hearing, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed again to a date in June, according to Fox News.

Dr Afridi’s next court hearing, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed again to a date in June, according to Fox News.

The physician said he has been subjected to torture and harsh questioning since his arrest days after Bin Laden’s death in May 2011 as he tried to flee Pakistan.

And he also claimed that he did not know that the information he provided to the CIA had led to the assassination of the reclusive Al Qaeda leader.

Afridi’s brother Jamil told Fox News year that Shakil Afridi had suffered torture while in custody ahead of his sentencing and previously appealed for U.S. Embassy help to fight his legal case.

In an interview with Fox News from his Pakistan jail cell in September Dr Afridi says he has been told: ‘You helped our enemies.

‘They said “The Americans are our worst enemies, worse than the Indians.”‘

Dr Afridi said he tried to defend the U.S. as allies and supporters of Pakistan.

He told Fox news: ‘I tried to argue that America was Pakistan’s biggest supporter – billions and billions of dollars in aid, social and military assistance – but all they said was, “These are our worst enemies. You helped our enemies.”‘

Dr Afridi also warned that any cooperation by Pakistan is just a front for the country to collect billions of dollars in aid from the U.S.

“It is now indisputable that militancy in Pakistan is supported by the ISI… Pakistan’s fight against militancy is bogus. It’s just to extract money from America.’

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