Public Meeting - Justice for Aafia Siddiqui

23 June 2010 - 2:38pm — P and J
26 Jun 2010 - 4:30pm
Etc/GMT

Victoria Halls, 70 Coplaw Street, Glasgow G42 7JG

Dr Aafia Siddiqui : A Pakistani woman who has lived and studied in America is currently Prisoner Number 90279-054 in New York’s Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center.

2003: Aafia “disappeared” along with her three children while visiting her mother in Pakistan. Evidence now shows that she was “Prisoner 650” in notorious Bagram airbase. As a US Detainee she was given no rights to question her treatment and has suffered physical and mental torture.

2008: She was taken to the US to stand trial. After all the investigations done on her, the only thing they are charging her with is “assaulting and attempted murder of US personnel in Afghanistan” while she was in prison.

In the Brooklyn Detention Center she is being denied phone calls and letters while she waits for her trial to conclude. This is inhuman and she is becoming very ill.

US District Court in Manhattan has adjourned her sentencing hearing to August 16 2010.