Shaye gained fame and attention for his interviews with figures associated with al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Before his arrest and imprisonment, he was best known for revealing, based on his own on-the-ground reporting, that a December 2009 bombing in the village of Majalla in southern Abyan province was not a Yemeni airstrike on an al Qaida training camp, as originally claimed, but an American sea-based missile strike on a Bedouin encampment that killed dozens of civilians, including 14 women and 21 children. Shaye’s ability to garner rare access to leaders of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula aroused the suspicion of authorities, and he was arrested in August 2010. After being denied a lawyer and kept in solitary confinement for 34 days, he was taken before a court in late September that year and was charged a month later. His five-year sentence for “participating in an armed group and having links with al Qaida” was handed down in January 2011. Read more here: mcclatchydc/2013/05/31/192753/yemeni-journalist-abdulelah-haider.html#.UccW_WS9Kc0#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 16:46:40 +0000