Will Obama keep Yemeni journalist in jail ? | Index on Censorship
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The president of Yemen says journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shaye should be released from jail. Will Barack Obama stand between the reporter and freedom? Iona Craig reports
(Le journaliste yéménite Abdallah Shayi’ a été arrêté au Yémen en Août 2010 sur ordre étasunien, sous prétexte qu’il avait interviewé un militant d’AQ, en réalité parce qu’il rapportait les victimes civiles des frappes de drones.)
Seven months after the al-Majala bombing and following his criticism of both the Yemeni and US Governments, Shaye was abducted by Political Security Organisation [PSO] gunmen. Beaten and threatened before being released, in response Shaye went back on television. A month later, in August 2010, his house was raided by Yemen’s elite US-trained and funded Counter Terrorism troops. Shaye was once again beaten and tortured, according to the Yemeni human rights organisation HOOD, during 34 days in solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer or family members.
