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 [...]
A federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Thursday that two government psychiatrists had concluded that a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan had been faking her symptoms of mental illness.
An earlier court-ordered psychological evaluation had concluded that the neuroscientist, Aafia Siddiqui, 37, was unfit for trial as a result of a [...]
NEW YORK – A US prosecutor said Thursday that two government psychiatrists had concluded that Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan, had been faking her symptoms of mental illness.
An earlier court-ordered psychological evaluation had concluded that Ms. Siddiqui, 37, was unfit for trial as [...]
