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Pakistanis protest US jailing of neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui


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People took to the street of the capital Islamabad to protest the government's failure to secure the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddique from the US custody.


Nine years on her detention has once again brought the people onto the streets to highlight what they call her mistrial in 2010 by a New York court which sentenced her to 86 years in prison on charges of attempted murder of American soldiers during her detention in an Afghan prison in 2008.

Pakistan's secret intelligence agencies allegedly kidnapped Dr Aafia from her home along with her children from Karachi and they were then handed over to the US in 2003, during the reign of former military ruler, General Parvez Musharraf. Read More


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Author and journalist. Author of Islamic Pakistan: Illusions & Reality; Islam in the Post-Cold War Era; Islam & Modernism; Islam & Muslims in the Post-9/11 America. American Muslims in Politics. Islam in the 21st Century: (more...)
 

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