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Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani national who is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, United States for attempted murder and other felonies.
- Who Is Aafia Siddiqui?
- ‘Victim of Us War on Terror’
- ‘Daughter of The Nation’
- Growing Support For Release in Us
Siddiqui, a US-educated-Pakistani national, was charged with attempting to kill US soldiers and FBI agents during interrogation after her arrest in 2008 in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. She was flown to the US and sentenced to 86 years in prison after a New York court found the 49-year-old mother of three guilty of attempted murder and assault in ...
Mosaab Sadeia, a 21-year-old member of the Islamic Leadership Council of New York and one of the organisers of the New York protest, said Siddiqui is a victim of the US’s so-called “war on terror” and “unjustly” imprisoned. “She is a prisoner of conscience, a political prisoner and victim of the US war on terror. We are here to tell the Pakistani g...
In Pakistan, Siddiqui’s case has attracted enormous support from across the political divide. In 2018, the Pakistani Senate unanimously passed a resolution dubbing her “Daughter of the Nation”. On several occasions, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has extended his support for negotiating Siddiqui’s release with the US government. In July 2019, ...
Over the past few months, calls in the US for release and repatriation of Siddiqui have become more intense. Last month, the Boston chapter of United Steelworkers, a labour union, passed a resolution calling on the US government to free Siddiqui and allow the visit of independent medical practitioners from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to evaluate ...
Jan 17, 2022 · Aafia Siddiqui, whose release was demanded by a man who took hostages inside a Texas synagogue, would not condone the man's actions, her attorney said Saturday.
Jan 16, 2022 · The man who authorities say was holding hostages inside a Texas synagogue on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who is imprisoned on charges of trying to kill American service members in Afghanistan.
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- National Security Reporter
Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist, was convicted by a New York court of trying to kill American military officers. But in Pakistan, she has become an icon of honor and victimization.
In the summer of 2008, following disclosure that a Pakistani woman was being secretly held prisoner at the Bagram Detention Center in Afghanistan, Dr. Siddiqui was released from captivity in a weakened and disheveled state; reunited with her son (Ahmed), and then set up to be killed.
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On the morning of Saturday, January 15, 2022, at 10:00 AM local time, a man later identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram entered Congregation Beth Israel, a Jewish synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and took four individuals hostage at gunpoint during a livestreaming of Shabbat morning services. 1 Local police arrived at ...
