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YEMEN, DECEMBER 2010
Sanaa Yemen- December 2010: A Yemeni journalist and expert on al Qaeda is being tried for alleged links to the global militant group, including helping to publicise the views of a U.S.-born Muslim cleric wanted by Washington..The trial of Abdulelah Shai started in a special security court not attended by his lawyers, who like several attorneys in Yemen, consider the court illegal and boycott it..Shai's interview with radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to the failed bombing of a U.S.-bound plane in December 2009, was posted on the website of Al Jazeera television earlier this year..Prosecutors accused Shai of "being an active al Qaeda member, including.acting as a media secretary for the radical Muslim preacher and working to.attract a number of foreigners into joining al Qaeda." His defence team.denies the charges.."Everything Shai did was part of a journalist's job of seeking information, whether this is information the government likes or not," said Mohamed Allawo of the National Organisation for Defending Rights and Freedoms, which.is defending Shai..Shai has made numerous appearances in international media as an al Qaeda.expert and is often described as having a close relationship with members of.the militant group.."There is no real charge, because there's no case in the Yemen judiciary.against Anwar al-Awlaki and there is no ruling that criminalises contact.with Awlaki," Allawo said..The U.S. Treasury has blacklisted Awlaki as a "specially designated global.terrorist," a move that freezes any assets he may have under U.S..jurisdiction..Earlier this year, the United States authorised the CIA to capture or kill.him. Awlaki has been linked to an army major who went on a shooting spree.that killed 13 people last year at Fort Hood in Texas..Impoverished Yemen, neighbour to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, has been.under international pressure to quash a resurgent regional wing of al Qaeda.based in the country..The government has been mounting a U. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Yuri Kozyrev)
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YEMEN, DECEMBER 2010
Sanaa Yemen- December 2010: The demonstration outside the court where the trial on the Yemeni journalists is held.. A Yemeni journalist and expert on al Qaeda is being tried for alleged links to the global militant group, including helping to publicise the views of a U.S.-born Muslim cleric wanted by Washington..The trial of Abdulelah Shai started on in a special security court not attended by his lawyers, who like several attorneys in Yemen, consider the court illegal and boycott it..Shai's interview with radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to the failed bombing of a U.S.-bound plane in December 2009, was posted on the website of Al Jazeera television earlier this year..Prosecutors accused Shai of "being an active al Qaeda member, including.acting as a media secretary for the radical Muslim preacher and working to.attract a number of foreigners into joining al Qaeda." His defence team.denies the charges.."Everything Shai did was part of a journalist's job of seeking information, whether this is information the government likes or not," said Mohamed Allawo of the National Organisation for Defending Rights and Freedoms, which.is defending Shai..Shai has made numerous appearances in international media as an al Qaeda.expert and is often described as having a close relationship with members of.the militant group.."There is no real charge, because there's no case in the Yemen judiciary.against Anwar al-Awlaki and there is no ruling that criminalises contact.with Awlaki," Allawo said..The U.S. Treasury has blacklisted Awlaki as a "specially designated global.terrorist," a move that freezes any assets he may have under U.S..jurisdiction..Earlier this year, the United States authorised the CIA to capture or kill.him. Awlaki has been linked to an army major who went on a shooting spree.that killed 13 people last year at Fort Hood in Texas..Impoverished Yemen, neighbour to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, has been.under international pressure to quas (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Yuri Kozyrev)
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YEMEN, DECEMBER 2010
Sanaa Yemen- December 2010: The demonstration outside the court where the trial on the Yemeni journalists is held.. A Yemeni journalist and expert on al Qaeda is being tried for alleged links to the global militant group, including helping to publicise the views of a U.S.-born Muslim cleric wanted by Washington..The trial of Abdulelah Shai started on in a special security court not attended by his lawyers, who like several attorneys in Yemen, consider the court illegal and boycott it..Shai's interview with radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to the failed bombing of a U.S.-bound plane in December 2009, was posted on the website of Al Jazeera television earlier this year..Prosecutors accused Shai of "being an active al Qaeda member, including.acting as a media secretary for the radical Muslim preacher and working to.attract a number of foreigners into joining al Qaeda." His defence team.denies the charges.."Everything Shai did was part of a journalist's job of seeking information, whether this is information the government likes or not," said Mohamed Allawo of the National Organisation for Defending Rights and Freedoms, which.is defending Shai..Shai has made numerous appearances in international media as an al Qaeda.expert and is often described as having a close relationship with members of.the militant group.."There is no real charge, because there's no case in the Yemen judiciary.against Anwar al-Awlaki and there is no ruling that criminalises contact.with Awlaki," Allawo said..The U.S. Treasury has blacklisted Awlaki as a "specially designated global.terrorist," a move that freezes any assets he may have under U.S..jurisdiction..Earlier this year, the United States authorised the CIA to capture or kill.him. Awlaki has been linked to an army major who went on a shooting spree.that killed 13 people last year at Fort Hood in Texas..Impoverished Yemen, neighbour to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, has been.under international pressure to quas (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Yuri Kozyrev)
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