“They are neither giving us the copy of the order needed to file an appeal,
nor have they allowed us to meet Afridi in jail,” he said.
The former government surgeon ran a fake vaccination programme designed to
collect bin Laden family DNA from the compound in the town of Abbottabad,
where the Al-Qaeda leader was shot dead in a US raid in May 2011.
After his sentencing, a furious Senate Appropriations Committee voted to cut
US aid to Pakistan by a symbolic $33 million – $1 million for each year of
jail time.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the sentence was “unjust and
unwarranted”, saying Afridi was “instrumental in taking down one of the
world’s most-wanted murderers”.
On Thursday, jail officials told AFP that Afridi was weak, depressed and
suffering from a bad stomach. He had been examined twice by doctors and
prescribed medicine, they said.
But local government spokesman insisted Monday that the prisoner’s health was
“alright”.
Source: AFP
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