The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden has been convicted of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison, the BBC and other news organizations are reporting. Shakil Afridi has been sent to prison in Peshawar.

Update at 10:11 a.m. ET: Afridi was tried under a set of laws known as Frontier Crimes Regulations, which govern Pakistan's tribal region, The Christian Science Monitor is reporting. Human rights organizations have criticized the system for failing to provide due process. Under the system, people have no rights to legal representation, to present material evidence or to cross-examine witnesses, the Monitor reports.

Update at 9:50 a.m. ET: Afridi's imprisonment is likely to anger Washington at a time when the United States and Pakistan are engaged in sensitive talks over reopening NATO supply routes to U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, MSNBC is reporting.

Original post: A tribal court Wednesday sentenced Shakil Afridi to 33 years in jail and fined him $3,500, according to The New York Times.

Afridi has been sent to Central Prison in Peshawar.

Afridi was charged with treason for running a fake vaccination program to try to collect DNA information on the bin Laden family, according to the BBC.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodman Clinton had called for Afridi's release on the grounds that his work helped the United States and Pakistan to track down the al-Qaeda leader, the BBC reports.

Afridi provided information that helped U.S. Navy SEALS kill bin Laden during a raid on his compound in Abbottabad in May 2011. After the raid, word that bin Laden had been living in Pakistan embarrassed the Pakistani government, according to the BBC.