In the first week of April 2003 several news items were published in national dailies and broadcast from private TV channel regarding the sudden disappearance of Dr Aafia Siddiqui form Karachi as of other Pakistanis who have been handed over to the Americans. The following is a chronological account of Dr Siddiqi’s disappearance and the [...]
Name: Aafia Siddiqui
Nationality: Pakistani
Resident: USA/Pakistan
Married, three children, also missing
UPDATE: 8-3-08 FBI Admits Aafia in custody in Afghanistan
UPDATE: 2006 Report shows US admits having Aafia.[download]
By Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann
Piecing together a picture of the CIA’s secret rendition program.
An extraordinary rendition may be defined as the extrajudicial transfer of an individual to a country where there is reasonable probability he will be tortured. In our research we have counted 67 known cases of extraordinary rendition by the [...]
