TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor serving 33 year prison sentence for helping the CIA track down and kill Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in 2011, is expected to be released in May after authorities remitted 10 years of his sentence, according to his lawyer.
Afridi’s lawyer Qamar Nadeem told that his client, who has received several remissions in sentence, will complete his jail term this month. Nadeem said that his client was sentenced to a total of 33 years jail term on four different charges. He was given 30 years on three counts and three years on one count.
However, after an approval of his appeal, 10 years of imprisonment had been remitted. The lawyer said that if Afridi’s total jail term and remissions were taken into consideration, then he was likely to be freed this month. Afridi was shifted to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi from Peshawar Central Jail under strict security measures on Friday.
