WASHINGTON: The hearing of the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, detained and being tried in US over alleged charges of attempt to murder US troops in Afghanistan, has been adjourned until Monday, Geo news reported.
Two more witnesses from prosecution were questioned on Friday during hearing of her case here in New York case.
One witness claimed [...]
Jury in Dr. Aafia Siddiqui trial is likely to begin deliberations Monday afternoon after prosecution and defense attorneys make closing statements.
In a taped video deposition presented by defense on Friday, Bashir, an Afghan police officer testified that he saw an American officer walk behind the curtain just before he heard gun shots, and that he [...]
The hearing in the prevailing week of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui case has come to end here in a court during which, the prosecutor could only produce witnesses with contradictions in their testimonies against Aafia.
Two more witnesses were questioned on weekend of hearing in the case including an FBI investigation officer and the other was eyewitness [...]
NEW YORK: An FBI firearms expert has expressed doubts whether the M-4 rifle, which was allegedly grabbed by Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui to attack U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan, was ever fired at the crime scene.Carlo Rosati, the expert who testified in a federal court Friday, said he had thoroughly examined the weapon, the curtain from [...]
New York—An FBI expert told a federal court on Wednesday that he found no fingerprints on the rifle that Aafia Siddiqui allegedly grabbed to fire at US interrogators in Afghanistan, but asserted that firearms in many cases do not retain them.
T. J. Fife, the FBI fingerprint expert who was put on [...]
NEW YORK: A lawyer for Aafia Siddiqui on Thursday protested against heavier-than-usual security at the U.S. District Court where the Pakistani neuroscientist is being tried for attempted murder, saying the measures violated his client’s right to a free, fair and open trial. Just before the court adjourned on the third day of trial, Charles [...]
A lawyer for Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist, has denounced extra security measures at a U.S. court requiring visitors at her trial to show identification and sign in even after passing through two check points.
The extra security check comes on top of a metal detector placed outside the doorway of the Manhattan courtroom on the [...]
by Petra Bartosiewicz
This week the long awaited trial of Aafia Siddiqui began in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. Her case has been one of the most baffling in the annals of post-9/11 terrorism prosecutions. Siddiqui, as regular readers of this website know, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist, who lived in the U.S. for ten years [...]
NEW YORK: The trial of Aafia Siddiqi, the Pakistani neuroscientist, on charge of attempted murder adjourned till next week after recording the testimony on Friday of a firearm expert working for the FBI.
Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan said the trial will resume on Monday morning. Before the adjournment, the lead [...]
* Talha Mehmood says senators’ attitude shows their lack of interest in Aafia’s release
* Dr Aafia’s sister wants family left alone
By Tahir Niaz
ISLAMABAD: The behaviour of senators Haji Adeel of the Awami National Party and Tahir Hussain Mashaddi of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement marred the proceedings of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, which was [...]
