LONDON (UK): Four British Muslim Parliamentarians have demanded release of Dr.Aafia Siddiqui from the US custody and her return to Pakistan along with her two missing children.
In a letter addressed to US President Barack Obama and released to the media, Lord Nazir Ahmed along with Lord Altaf Sheikh, Lord Patel and [...]
by Stephen Lendman
Her trial proceedings were carefully orchestrated. Witnesses were either enlisted, pressured, coerced, and/or bought off to cooperate, then jurors were intimidated to convict, her attorney, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, saying their verdict was “based on fear, not fact.”
On February 3, 2010, after a sham trial, the Department of Justice announced Siddiqui’s conviction for “attempting [...]
FREE AAFIA SIDDIQUI (RAP)
This is the instrumental track I recorded for our beloved sister, Dr Aafia Siddiqi, who has recently been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the USA. The story and conviction of Dr. Aafia exposes the most heinous and inhumane face of western democracy and the sham of [...]
Pakistani lawmakers have passed a resolution in parliament urging the government to pressure the United States to immediately release Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently in prison in the US.
On Monday, parliamentarians from the ruling party and opposition benches in the Pakistani Senate, which is the upper house of parliament, [...]
Islamabad has appealed to Washington to repatriate the female Pakistani scientist convicted in a US court of attempting to murder US military interrogators and FBI agents.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was recently found guilty by a US jury of charges that she has vehemently denied to have committed. The main charge against her [...]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari requested the US government on Thursday to repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan.
During his meeting with US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, President Zardari requested that Aafia Siddiqui, currently convicted for attacking US soldiers, be repatriated to Pakistan under the Prisoner Exchange Agreement [...]
By: Anne Gamboni
U.S. government, military–the real terrorists
One of the vile byproducts of the “global war on terror,” now in its ninth year, has been the “commodification” of intelligence gathering. Information is needed, President Obama stated in a major policy speech in May 2009, not just to prosecute those who commit attacks but [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government assured the National Assembly on Thursday it would put up a “good defence” for Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui even at the next stage of her trial by a US court where a jury last week found her guilty of attempting to murder American soldiers in Afghanistan.
“Justice is not [...]
By Moin Ansari
The Terror-Industrial Complex
The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security comes not from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, kidnappers, killers and torturers our government [...]
by Stephen Lendman
On February 3, a Department of Justice press release headlined “Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges.”
At her scheduled May 6 sentencing, she “faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each of the attempted murder and armed [...]
