Blog Yemeni president pardons reporter Obama wanted kept in jail Share This Post Government / National News / Politics / World News Yemeni president pardons reporter Obama wanted kept in jail By redkudzu_admin on July 24th 2014 No Comments / 172 views BY ADAM BARON SANAA, YEMEN — Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye, whom President Barack Obama once personally lobbied to have remain in jail, has been pardoned and released, fulfilling a months-old pledge from Yemen’s president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. It was unclear whether Hadi had told American authorities in advance when Shaye would be released, but the White House said in an email Wednesday that it was “concerned and disappointed” by his release before the expiration of his five-year prison term for associating with al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Shaye’s ability to gain access to high-ranking, deeply reclusive al Qaida-linked figures earned him international attention, allowing him to report for a number of Western news outlets. But he earned the ire of U.S. and Yemeni authorities for his reporting that revealed that a December 2009 bombing in the village of Majalla in the southern province of Abyan was an American cruise-missile attack that killed dozens of civilians, including 14 women and 21 children,rather than a Yemeni airstrike on an al Qaida training camp, as originally claimed. After those reports, he was arrested in 2010 and held for more than a month without seeing an attorney. A Yemeni court found Shaye guilty in 2011 of assisting al Qaida, and sentenced him to five years in jail after a trial that international human rights groups described as a sham. Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/24/197554/yemeni-president-pardons-reporter.html#.UfFegmR4aPM#storylink=cpy Read more… Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. Login with: Continue with Facebook Continue with Google Continue with Twitter Obama Political Share This Post redkudzu_admin The goal of this site is to give information. Whether from national sites or locally in Georgia. Related Articles John Boehner: I Will Vote For Hillary Clinton Over Ted Cruz May 2nd 2016 KISS frontman Gene Simmons takes on Tim Tebow critics who attack player’s faith News Chris Field May 13, 2021 May 13th 2021 Just How Unpopular Is The New Republican Nominee? The Numbers Are STUNNING. May 6th 2016