With the help of Amnesty International, Abdulelah Haider Shaye investigated the attack and discovered U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs made by General Dynamics were used. He revealed the pictures of the missiles along with the names of those who died. He discovered that among the so-called militants were 14 women—five of whom were pregnant—and 21 children, the youngest being two. The government interrogated, beat and threatened Shaye for reporting about the innocent deaths and the U.S. involvement in the Al Majalah massacre.. “We will destroy your life if you keep on talking about this issue,” one interrogator told him. But he knew the truth and refused to let the perpetrators get away with cold-blood murder. A month later, Yemeni security forces stormed into Shaye’s house, beat him, arrested him and threw him into solitary confinement where he stayed for 34 days without access to a lawyer. He appeared before court in September 2010 but was not charged until October and later convicted in January 2011 with a five-year sentence and a two-year house arrest . He was convicted of “recruiting al Qaeda members and being a propagandist for Anwar Al Awlaki”, despite no evidence ever presented in any of the trials. Shaye refused to present a defense as a way to protest the court. “I don’t recognize the legitimacy of this court,” he told the judge.
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