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muslimmatters.org (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Update on Dr. Aafia’s case. More delays and more unjust incarceration. By Our [Dawn] Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov 19: The judge hearing the case of Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist charged with firing on US officials, deferred on Wednesday a decision on her competency to stand trial till Dec 17.At a conference hearing, Federal Judge Richard [...]
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Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
The similarities between Aafia Siddiqui and Safia Jilani continue: both appear to be making up stories of suffering, and both are receiving "treatment" for (fictitious') traumas "suffered." Of course, claiming torture is an old jihadist strategy. And if that doesn't...
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NaiTazi.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Source: Daily Times WASHINGTON: Dr Aafia Siddiqui, whom a government doctor has declared unfit to stand trial, will be repatriated to Pakistan, if a plea made by the Pakistan government succeeds in persuading American authorities to drop the case they have lodged against her of murderous assault on US serviceman in Kabul. According to the official US [...]
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Cageprisoners (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani has demanded Dr Aafia Siddiqui should be repatriated to Pakistan immediately after an American court found her unfit to stand trial.
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Cageprisoners (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
The government has been urged to make serious efforts to extradite Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a US-trained neuroscientist, to Pakistan after a report in a US court termed the lady incapable of facing trial because of her poor mental health.
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Cageprisoners (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Dr Aafia Siddiqui, whom a government doctor has declared unfit to stand trial, will be repatriated to Pakistan, if a plea made by the Pakistan government succeeds in persuading American authorities to drop the case they have lodged against her of murderous assault on US serviceman in Kabul.
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Miss Kelly (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Another twist in the strange story of MIT grad Aafia Siddiqui, she's been found unfit to stand trial:" 'Mata Hari' terror suspect Aafia Siddiqui is not mentally competent to stand trial, a court-appointed psychiatrist said." "Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Berman still plans to hold a hearing Wednesday to find out...
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baithak (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani woman suspected of links to Al Qaeda and charged with trying to kill American interrogators in Afghanistan, is mentally unfit to stand trial, according to her psychiatric evaluation. Aafia Siddiqui, 36, is “not currently competent to proceed as a result of her mental disease, which renders her unable to understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings...
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Cageprisoners (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government has not found a "shred of evidence" that a Pakistani woman accused of trying to kill a U.S. soldier and FBI agents was abducted or tortured in the five years before her arrest, a prosecutor said Wednesday.Assistant U.S. Attorney David Raskin said U.S. agencies had searched for evidence to support reports that Aafia Siddiqui was detained...
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Cageprisoners (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
The Pakistani embassy here has asked the United States to urgently repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan for her rehabilitation in light of a report that her current mental state renders the neuroscientist unable to stand court trial.
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YID With LID (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
For the last five years, the whereabouts and sudden disappearance in 2003 of former MIT graduate, Pakistani national, and alleged terrorist Aafia Siddiqui have remained mysterious. Accused by the U.S. of terrorist ties on she was brought to the US to face trial for attempted murder of American officers and FBI agents while being held in Afghanistan. Now granted, anyone who becomes a terrorist...
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NION - Front Page (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
"Whatever the truth, it is immaterial. Nothing justifies the depths of sadism that the US government and its lackeys routinely descend to." -- Najma Sadeque , Pakistan-based rights activist and senior journalist, referring to the treatment meted out to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui by U.S. authorities. Dr. Aafia's life in recent years is a mystery inside a riddle, as are the lives of her three...
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Cageprisoners (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
By SHAFI BALOCH KARACHI - Human Rights Network (HRN) filed a petition with the SHC to retrieve back Pakistani national Dr. Afia Siddiqui who is missing from March 2003 and appeared recently in Afghanistan but later handed over to the United States.Human Rights Network (HRN) filled a petition against the detention of Pakistani citizen Dr Aafia Siddiqi to USA government in Sindh High Court on...
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Is it any wonder, considering what the Grey Lady of Bagram has been through? Monday, November 17, 2008 NEW YORK: A psychology exam has determined that a Pakistani woman accused of trying to kill a U.S. soldier and FBI agents is mentally unfit for trial. A federal judge in Manhattan notified lawyers in the case Monday of the conclusions regarding Aafia Siddiqui. Siddiqui has been charged with...
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Cageprisoners (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
The Pakistan Bar Council Saturday urged the United Nations to intervene and play its due role in safeguarding the civil rights and liberty of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and for her fair and transparent trial by a competent court of law.
