ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA in its hunt for Osama bin Laden was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for treason in a ruling by tribal agency authorities in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.
Shakil Afridi, a government surgeon in the semi-autonomous Khyber Agency in Pakistan?s northwest, was detained by Pakistani intelligence officials shortly after the U.S. raid that killed bin Laden.
Held for more than a year, he was subject to the tribal justice system.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said Afridi helped the CIA by collecting DNA samples through a fake hepatitis vaccination program in Abbottabad, where bin Laden had been in hiding for six years.
?He was not in any way treasonous toward Pakistan,? Panetta told CBS?s ?60 Minutes? in January.
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