By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: A 12-year-old son of neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui was handed over to his aunt Fauzia Siddiqui here on Monday after years of detention in a US military base in Afghanistan.
Touching scenes were witnessed when Mohammad Ahmed, wearing white Shalwar Qameez, was brought to Dr Fauzia Siddiqui’s [...]
..Now we are charging 11 year old children??
Kabul, (ANI): After repeated requests from Islamabad, the Afghanistan Government has reportedly promised to Pakistan to return soon one of the three sons of Pakistani scientist and terror suspect Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who was arrested in Afghanistan earlier this month and presently being tried in the US [...]
..This serves to prove a few things, some of which are - how deeply traumatized this poor child is, how long he has been in Afghanistan, and also how terribly afraid he must be.. we in the USA should be so proud of ourselves!
WASHINGTON: Ahmed, the 11-year-old boy said to have been apprehended with Aafia [...]
by Tim Bella
What happens when an 11-year-old U.S. citizen is held by Afghanistan’s intelligence service? According to the U.S. State Department, not much, at least for now.
It is, for sure, a complicated case. Early this week, we noted a Washington Post article detailing confirmation that Afghan security forces had been holding Ahmed Siddiqui, the [...]
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The Afghan government should immediately relinquish 11-year-old Ahmed Siddiqui to the custody of his family, Human Rights Watch said today. Siddiqui, a US citizen, is believed to [...]
The Post Report
WASHINGTON: The United States has confirmed that Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s 12-year-old son has been in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 2003, reported Channel Five.
Michael G Garcia, the US attorney general of southern region, in his letter addressed to Dr Aafia’s sister Dr Fozia Siddiqui, has revealed that Dr [...]
Tariq Habib
KARACHI: The United States could use Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s son as a witness against her, said Dr Aafia’s mother Asmat Siddiqui while talking to The Post.
She said Ahmed Amjad, son of Dr Aafia, would be 12 years old after two months. Children below the age of 12 years cannot be detained as per provision [...]
The case against Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani MIT graduate and detainee of the US held for over five years under mysterious circumstances, is finally being made public - and looks to fulfill more in a pattern of dubious evidence and maltreatment in the name of the War on Terror.
By Marryam Haleem,
It may be all [...]
by Tim Bella
Aafia Siddiqui (Credit: AP Photo)
As U.S. and Pakistani officials sort through the confusion following Aafia Siddiqui’s transfer to New York after being charged with trying to kill U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan last month, a key question remains: Where has Siddiqui been for the past five years?
The American-trained [...]
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
A video released on YouTube (BELOW) shows American soldiers taking a group of Iraqis on a tour of a prison camp. The soldier guiding the group tells them that all the cases are currently being reviewed and says, “I’m sure if someone didn’t do anything wrong, they’ll be released.”
At 5:47 into [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (APP): Pakistan has asked the United States to hand over to it three children of Dr Aafia Siddqui, who according to media reports are believed to be in the US custody. Pakistan is also seeking repatriation of Ms Siddiqui, a Pakistani national facing charges in a New York district court of attempted [...]
By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani woman suspected of links to al Qaeda and accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was examined by a doctor on Tuesday after complaining of pain from gunshot wounds, her lawyer said.
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a U.S.-trained neuroscientist, was ordered by a judge to receive urgent [...]
The courtroom was packed. Sketch artists were in place. Journalists and other spectators squeezed into seats. Marshals kept a watchful eye.
Mark Lenihan/Associated Press
Aafia Siddiqui is accused of shooting at F.B.I. agents.
The place was Federal District Court in Manhattan, where a Pakistani neuroscientist was to be arraigned on criminal charges on Tuesday. Government officials have said [...]
Prisoner 650 is a Pakistani Muslim woman held by the American military for many years without trial in the notorious Bagram Prison in Afghanistan. Her screams have reached the ears of many ex inmates and others who have visited the prison. They all claim that the screams still haunts them. They have labelled her the [...]
By Syed Shoaib Hasan
BBC News, Islamabad
Some reports say Aafia Siddiqui was part of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell
Aafia Siddiqui, whom the US accuses of al-Qaeda links, vanished in Karachi with her three children on 30 March 2003.
The next day it was reported in local newspapers that a woman had [...]
A little more clarity has emerged in respect of Aafia Siddiqui who appeared in a New York court on Aug 5 and was ordered to be held without bail. We now at least know that she is alive, though not in the best of health according to eyewitness reports from the courtroom. We also know [...]
PRESS RELEASE
Aafia Siddiqui claims she was held by the US in Bagram for years
Cageprisoners has received new information that Aafia Siddiqui was held for years in Bagram Airbase. According to her lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp,
“We do know she was at Bagram for a long time. It was a long time. According to my client [...]
Cageprisoners rejects the ‘sham’ story that is being fed by the US administration regarding the circumstances and details of Aafia Siddiqui’s detention.
On Monday 4th August 2008, federal prosecutors in the US confirmed that Aafia Siddiqui was extradited to the US from Afghanistan where they allege she had been detained since mid-July 2008. The US [...]
..The USA are the new Nazis, as you can clearly see from this photograph of her after her concentration camp experience. Surely the death of her two youngest children and her sexual abuse is enough! Does she look like she is healthy enough to have picked up a rifle, much less shot it???
By Scott [...]
By Yvonne Ridley, Press TV
Aafia Siddiqui
The FBI lost much of its credibility when its chief J. Edgar Hoover was revealed to be a transvestite who preferred to be called Mary.
Hoover, probably the most powerful men in America some say even more powerful then the presidents he served under, was the originator of dirty [...]
By NISAR MEHDI
KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Central General Secretary Munawar Hassan has urged the government to take-up efforts to release Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the captivity of United States.
He lashed on agencies who are harassing the family of Dr Aafia and said that it’s the prime responsibility of the government to protect [...]
NEW YORK: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has shifted Doctor Aafiya Siddiqui to New York where she would be produce in front of court and could get 20 years of imprisonment in accusation of attacking on American Army officers. While Pakistan has sought counselor access to the detained doctor
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a Pakistani and former [...]
..This is such an obvious lie! How do they expect us to believe these things? Be sure to read her background under ‘profiles’!
WASHINGTON — An American-trained Pakistani neuroscientist with ties to operatives of Al Qaeda has been charged with trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in a police station in Afghanistan last month, [...]
CAGEPRISONERS PRESS RELEASE
04/08/2008
Cageprisoners demand answers on Siddiqui custody
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FBI admit to detention of Aafia Siddiqui five years after disappearance
In response to the FBI admission that disappeared Aafia Siddiqui is in custody in Afghanistan, alive but injured, Asim Qureshi, Senior Researcher for Cageprisoners, issued the following statement:
“There are many questions that the FBI and the Pakistani government [...]
Five years after her mysterious disappearance in Karachi, the FBI has finally conceded that an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist is alive and is in US custody in Afghanistan.
The fate of her three young, American-born children is still unknown.
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