LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) general house on Thursday condemned the US jury verdict against Dr Aafia Siddiqui, terming it a brutal act by the country that claims to champion human rights. The bar also criticised the government of Pakistan for failing to protect its “innocent citizen”.
LHCBA adopted a resolution demanding Dr [...]
US court rules Pakistani woman guilty of attempted murder
A Pakistani female neuroscientist has been convicted of trying to kill US soldiers and FBI agents while she was being detained at a police station in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors accuse Aafia Siddiqui of firing at her interrogators but her lawyers say there was no forensic evidence that the shooting [...]
NEW YORK: US Court Wednesday held Dr Aafia Siddiqui–a US-educated Pakistani woman as guilty of trying to kill American servicemen in Afghanistan.
According to Geo News, the court declared its verdict on Dr Siddiqui at 2pm (local time).
Aafia Siddiqui, 37, a neuroscientist trained at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was found guilty on all charges [...]
NEW YORK: The lawyers of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who has been convicted in a US court, refused to accept the verdict against the US-educated girl.
Siddiqui, a tiny, frail woman dressed in a beige tunic and white headscarf covering her mouth and forehead, showed no emotion as the jury pronounced its verdict.
After the verdict, outside the [...]
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 [...]
NEW YORK: Pakistani national, Dr Aafia Siddiqui told the jurors at her trial that she [...]
Judge Richard Berman ordered Dr. Aafia Siddqui out of the Southern District of New York court on the first day of her trial after her shocking outburst proclaiming that she was held in a secret prison and her children were tortured.
The outburst was in response to the testimony of the first prosecution witness, Robert Lee Snyder, a [...]
Aafia Siddiqui vs USA
The following is a summary based on a compilation of eyewitness accounts (It is not a transcript or complete account of a hearing that lasted about 2 hours):
The hearing was held at 2:30PM in courtroom 21-B of the federal court in Manhattan under presiding judge Richard Berman.
Approx 6 reporters and 25 -30 [...]
ISLAMABAD: Minister of state for foreign affairs, Malik Ammad Khan has said, that case of Aafia Siddique will have to be won from US court notwithstanding the human rights.
He said this while replying to a point of order in senate Tuesday. He told hearing of Aafia Siddique case was being conducted in US under US [...]
