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Archive: Orla Guerin reports on Dr Afridi's jailing in May 2012
Officials in Pakistan have overturned the jail sentence and ordered a retrial of a doctor who helped the CIA in their search for Osama Bin Laden.
Shakil Afridi was charged with treason and tried under the tribal justice system for running a fake vaccination programme to gather information.
He was jailed for 33 years in May 2012 and has been held since then at Peshawar Central Jail.
Bin Laden was killed by US forces in Abbottabad in May 2011.
His killing created a crisis in relations between the US and Pakistan, which felt the covert operation was a violation of its sovereignty.
Jailed for collaborationThe sentence was quashed and a retrial ordered because the previous judge had exceeded his authority in handing down the sentence, a judicial official at Pakistan's Frontier Crimes Regulation ruled.
The previous trial had been heard by an official with the status equivalent to a magistrate. The order issued by the commission says that the new trial must be heard by an official with the status of a judge.
Dr Afridi will stay in prison until the retrial is concluded. No date has been set for the trial.
Shortly after the raid on Bin Laden's house, Dr Afridi was arrested for conspiring against the state of Pakistan.
Although he was accused of working with the CIA he was eventually jailed for collaborating with a militant group. Correspondents say that the group named had actually kidnapped him on one occasion.
Dr Afridi was not present at his trial. His swift conviction came in a court outside Pakistan's normal jurisdiction in the semi-autonomous tribal areas, which do not necessarily follow standard judicial procedures.
He has consistently maintained that he did not know the target of the CIA operation was Osama Bin Laden.
US officials spoke out against his arrest and sentencing and called for his release. But Pakistan maintained that any government would have taken similar measures.
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