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People urged to struggle for release of Dr Aafia
Islamabad : Pakistan Professionals Forum (PPF) and the civil society based in the federal capital staged a protest rally here Wednesday at Aabpara Chowk to condemn and reject, in unequivocal terms, the illegal detention and conviction of Dr Aafia Siddiqui by the NY court.
The protestors including doctors, engineers, lawyers, academicians, students, and other professionals, while carrying placards and banners, chanted slogans and demanded international human rights organisations to play their due role in the release of Aafia Siddiqui.
The rally was addressed by Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, President PPF Asif Luqman Qazi, Chairperson Defence of Human Rights Amina Janjua, and other civil society activists and student leaders.
Govt urged to block Nato supply route for release of Dr Aafia
Islamabad : Hundreds of protesters in the federal capital on Sunday urged the government to block Nato supply route to allied forces in Afghanistan to press for release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who is languishing in US jail.
The protest demonstration, the largest in Islamabad on the issue of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s continuous custody in US was also participated by Dr. Fauzia Siddiqui, sister of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who called upon citizens of the capital to rise against brutalities of America.
The rally organised by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) with the support local religious and political organisations was also participated by women, children and traders community. The protesters carrying banners, placards and posters inscribed with slogans and photos of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui were raising slogans for the release of daughter of Pakistan.
Freedom Forum protests for release of Dr. Aafia
WASHINGTON: The hearing of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui case held in New York on Tuesday amid which US judge ordered to take Aafia out of courtroom over her hue and cry and disturbing proceedings of case.
A protest demonstration was also staged for release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui outside court.
She was produced in a Manhattan court while over appearance of first witness Captain Robert from prosecutor, she started screaming and creating uproar, saying that the witness was telling a lie and betraying the court.
Subsequently, the judge ordered to take her out of courtroom while her counsel told court the evidences, provided to court alleging Aafia of shooting US troops in Afghanistan, were not concrete and insufficient.
