Photograph courtesy of Take Back Pakistan
The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been charged with murder, his lawyer has said.
The allegations involve a surgery Dr Shakil Afridi performed on a boy for appendicitis in 2006, after which the boy died. His mother has now filed a complaint alleging that as Afridi is a physician and not a surgeon that he was not authorised to perform the surgery.
Afridi is currently in prison awaiting trial, although his lawyer Samiullah Afridi has said that too much time had passed.
This is not the first time Afridi has been in prison as he was convicted in May 2012 for “conspiring against the state” in helping the US find bin Laden, and sentenced to 33 years in prison for his crime. However, this sentence was overturned in August and a retrial ordered with allegations of Afridi suffering various forms of torture by Pakistani ISI interrogators whilst in custody.
