Salah Fareed Alshayeb, served as a senior captain at Gulf Air Airlines.
Salah joined in 1992 and was granted his license in 1994 held a position of first officer in 1999
He was promoted to a Senior Captain in 2009 and held that position till the day he was fired. He worked in various areas as a CRM Facilitator, instructor for A320/A340. He was always rated as a top pilot and recently granted the license P-1497 (Rating P1:A320,A330. before two weeks from his arrest he was fired from his work because he particpated in the furnel of one marter who was killed by the riot police during the
crackdown
.
Salah has three children, a son aged 14, two daughters agged 9 and 3 years old.
He is family oriented person with his dedication to his family and work. Salah has devoted his life to help the needy and commitment to comfort the poor. Salah's work was largely responsible in community services and working to the aid of others
His arrest coincides with a severe government crackdown on opposition activists and his home was stormed on 7 th of may 2011 at mednight at 3am and till today he is not charged and he didnt meet his lawer and his case wasnt transfered to the court
The reason for his arrest or his present whereabouts are unknown, Captin Salah Alshayeb is a simple man who served his country by his position as a captin in gulf air and he is not an actvist and he is not belong to any politcial party and we belive that he was targted because of his relative the actvist Raoof Alshayeb who is in london creticizing the goverment in the media
We call on the Bahraini goverment to release Captin salah alshayeb and overturn this serious miscarriage of justice.