NEW YORK (APP): A medical specialist, detailed by Aafia Siddiqui’s defence lawyer, Dawn Cardi, will appear before a U.S. judge on Wednesday to place before him her findings about the state of health of the Pakistani neuroscientist, who faces terrorism charges, according to informed sources. Dr. Camille Kempke will submit [...]
NEW YORK: Pakistani neurosurgeon Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has been shifted from detention center of Texas to New York amid strict security.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is facing alleged charges of launching attack on allied forces in Afghanistan and FBI agents.
The court would take decision either she would be able to participate in proceeding or not on July [...]
- Moazzam Begg is Director for the British organisation, Cageprisoners. The opinions expressed are his own.
Little seems to have changed regarding the treatment of prisoners held at the U.S. military-run Bagram prison since I was there (2002-2004). The recent study conducted by the BBC shows allegations of sleep deprivation, stress positions, beatings, degrading treatment, [...]
NEW YORK: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with alleged attempt to attack American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan, has been shifted to New York from a medical facility in Texas where she underwent a complete psychological evaluation.
Ms. Siddiqui, 37, was sent to Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, on the [...]
NEW YORK: Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani national indicted in the US on terrorism charges, last August is unable to account for five years of her life and this may have an adverse affect on Islamabad’s efforts to get her released, according to experts here.
Ms Siddiqui, a neuroscientist and an alumna of MIT and Barandeis universities, [...]
NEW YORK – Prosecutors and defence lawyers for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with trying to kill American soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan, will meet in a conference on Friday (today) ahead of her trial in federal court here next week.
Friday’s conference is aimed at determining Siddiqui’s competency to stand the trial.The trial [...]
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American Muslim community has raised about $70,000 for Dr. Afia Siddiqui’s defense, at a fund raiser held by the Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) which has established a special legal defense fund for Dr. Afia who is currently in detention at the Carswell Federal Medical Center in Fort [...]
PAKISTAN Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Woman Wing Punjab has demanded the federal government take immediate and concrete steps to bring back Dr. Aafia immediately, as there is no excuse to delay the matter.
The PTI women leaders, including President Punjab Saloni Bokhari, Secretary General Punjab Shamsa Ali Advocate and Secretary Information Punjab Talat Naqvi, said the meeting of [...]
The FIA has approached America’s FBI to be permitted access to Dr Aafia Siddiqui, on the basis that she is a Pakistani citizen and that questioning her could help unravel some of the mysteries of terrorism in the country. Certainly, the case of Dr Siddiqui remains just as covered in mist as it was in [...]
LAHORE: A US-based Muslim organisation has collected $70,000 to pursue Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s case, a private TV channel reported.
According to the channel, the Muslim Legal Fund of America organised a fund-raiser to collect money for the Pakistani neuroscientist accused of terrorism. Around 300 people attended the event. Addressing the audience, Pakistan American Democratic Forum President
