Yemen journalist pardoned after three years in prison
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A Yemeni journalist and expert on al Qaeda has been released after serving three years of a five-year sentence for aiding the Islamist militant network in Yemen, the president's office said on Wednesday. US President Barack Obama had personally intervened to keep freelance journalist Abdulelah Haider Shai in jail in 2011 after reports that he was about to be released.
An official at President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's office confirmed the pardon, but said Shai would not be allowed to travel outside Sanaa, the capital, for two years. (Reuters)
