Lawyer Samiullah Afridi, the lawyer for a doctor accused of helping the US find Osama Bin Laden has quit the case after receiving frequent death threats and fled to Dubai due to his safety.
Dr Shakil Afridi is accused of using the cover of a door-to-door vaccination campaign to help the US find Bin Laden which led to the raid that killed him in 2011.
Dr Shakil Afridi was convicted of alleged ties to militant groups and sentenced to 33 years in jail by a tribal court in 2012. The sentence was widely seen as punishment for his alleged role in the Bin Laden raid, which he denies.
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