Pinar TremblayPinar Tremblay is a columnist for Al-Monitor's Turkey Pulse and Turkish news outlet T24, as well as a visiting scholar of political science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her articles have appeared in Time, New America, Hurriyet Daily News, Today's Zaman, Star and Salom.
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Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015.
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