http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25319
The Grey Lady of Bagram
07/07/2008
by Yvonne Ridley
Firstly, I want to start by saying a big thank you to Imran Khan for organizing this conference today.
I heard Imran deliver a speech in the House of Commons recently with a great depth of passion for his country and his people.
Recognising a politician of integrity – sadly an all too rare quality, not just in Pakistan but around the world, I knew he was the right person to turn to.
I am a journalist, peace activist and a member of the RESPECT Party led by George Galloway – he sends his salutations to Imran Khan and all of those present today … as you know George has a deep affection for Pakistan.
But I am not here today to make a political speech – I am here today to make a personal appeal to my brothers and sisters across Pakistan … a country I often refer to as my second home.
And I am hoping all of you, my friends and colleagues in the Pakistan press corps, will help me reach out to your viewers, listeners and readers.
As you know, I embraced Islam in June 2003 joining what I consider to be the biggest and best family in the world. I like to think that as part of that family, if you need help I will come running just as if I need help you will lend a hand.
Today I am crying out for help – not for me, but for a Pakistan woman who you and I have never met, but she is our sister in Islam and she is in desperate need.
She has been held in isolation by the Americans in neighbouring Afghanistan.
As you know I was also held in Afghanistan, in prison for 10 days at the hands of the Taliban in September 2001. My story made international headlines, front page pictures and major stories on television.
I was released on humanitarian grounds without charge even though I was guilty of entering the country without a passport or visa.
But there has been not one word, not one paragraph about Prisoner 650 – the Grey Lady of Bagram … a murderous detention facility under the control of the US Military and intelligence services.
I call her the Grey Lady because she is almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her.
In truth, I wondered for a while if she really existed.
She first came to my attention when I read Enemy Combatant, a book by ex- Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg. Moazzam is a British citizen born and raised in Birmingham.
In February 2002, Moazzam was seized by the CIA in Islamabad. No reasons were given for his arrest. He was hooded, shackled and cuffed and flown to the U.S. detention facility at Kandahar, then to Bagram airbase where he was held for approximately a year before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. government labeled him an “enemy combatant,” although he was never charged with a crime.
In all, Moazzam spent three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement. He was subjected to over three hundred interrogations as well as death threats and torture. At Bagram, he witnessed the killing of two fellow detainees.
In January 2005, he was finally released and published a book about his experience. One section is devoted to the brutality of Bagram. He wrote: “I began to hear the chilling screams of a woman next door. My mind battled with questions I was too afraid to ask. "What if it was... my wife?"
“Eventually I did agree to say whatever they wanted me to say, to do whatever they wanted me to do. I had to finish it. I agreed to be their witness to whatever. At the end of it all, I asked them, "Why have you got a woman next door?" They told me there was no woman next door. But I was unconvinced. Those screams echoed through my worst nightmares for a long time. And I later learned in Guantánamo, from other prisoners, that they had heard the screams, too, and believed it was my wife. They had been praying for her deliverance.”
Well, when I first read his story I thought perhaps the CIA had played tape recordings as part of mental torture – but I now know that what Moazzam heard were the very real cries of a woman in genuine distress … a Pakistan woman.
What Moazzam and other Bagram detainees heard has also been corroborated by four Arabs who escaped from Bagram in July 2005.
While on the run one gave an interview to al Arabiya in which he not only confirmed he had heard a woman’s screams, but he had seen her.
He revealed how the male prisoners in Bagram had gone on hunger strike for six days to try and improve her conditions. She was treated to exactly the same brutal regime as the male prisoners.
Bizarrely enough, that interview went out recently on YouTube but was brought down several days ago without notice so I am unable to give you a copy today.
But what I also know, without going into too much detail, is that the Grey Lady is registered as Prisoner 650 – you see the US military has a file and records on her so they can not deny her existence.
Today I am making a demand that the US military hands over the Grey Lady immediately. We do not know her identity, we do not know the state of her mind, we do not know the extent of the abuse or torture.
What I do know is that this would never happen to a western woman – what is wrong with the US military? Don’t they value a Muslim woman, is her life worthless, does she not deserve to be treated with respect?
In truth I don’t think any of us with a conscience can rest until she is released.
Sadly, she is not the only one – and my colleague from Cage Prisoners – Saghir Hussain – will give more detail on Pakistan’s other Lost Souls known as The Disappeared.
All, like the Grey Lady of Bagram, have been illegally abducted by the secretive intelligence agencies.
They began disappearing in 2001 with the onset of the so-called war on terror.
Full Version: The Grey Lady Of Bagram
http://www.dawn.com/2008/07/07/nat1.htm
Pakistani woman languishing in Bagram�
By Jamal Shahid
ISLAMABAD, July 6: British journalist Yvonne Ridley called for help on Sunday for a Pakistani woman she believes is being held in isolation by the Americans in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan, for over four years.�I call her the �grey lady� because she is almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her,� Ms Ridley said at a press conference, urging Pakistanis to help her.
Ms Ridley, who has come to Pakistan to appeal for help, said the case came to her attention when she read the Enemy Combatant, a book by former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg. After being seized in February 2002 in Islamabad, Mr Begg was kept in detention centres in Kandahar and Bagram for about a year before he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. He recounted his experiences in the book after his release in 2005.
Ms Ridley read the text from the book�s section covering Mr Begg�s stay in Bagram: �I began to hear the chilling screams of a woman next door� Why have you got a woman next door? They told me there was no woman. But I was unconvinced. Those screams echoed through my worst nightmares for a long time. And I later learned in Guantanamo, from other prisoners, that they had heard the screams too.�
She said the account had been corroborated by four Arabs who had escaped from Bagram in July 2005. �While on the run, one not only confirmed he had heard a woman�s screams, but said he had seen her.�
Ms Ridley, who was detained in Afghanistan for 10 days by the Taliban in September 2001, said, �My story made international headlines, front page pictures and major stories on TV. But there has not been one word, not one paragraph about Prisoner 650 -- the �grey lady� of Bagram, a murderous detention facility under control of US military and intelligence services.�
Demanding her immediate release from US military�s detention, Ms Ridley said: �We don�t know her identity, the state of her mind, the extent of the abuse or torture. What I do know is that this would never happen to a western woman. Don�t they value a Muslim woman. Is her life worthless?�
She urged every Pakistani to ring America, ask them who Prisoner 650 was. What was her crime? Who else was being held illegally? How many secret detention centres were there?
Ms Ridley�s colleague Saghir Hussain gave details about other people of the country who had �disappeared�.
�All, like the grey lady of Bagram, have been illegally abducted by secretive intelligence agencies. They began disappearing in 2001 during the so-called war on terror,� he said.
Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan demanded that the government should hold an investigation into the case. �What has the sovereign parliament done about the missing persons?� he asked.
Pakistani woman languishing in Bagram�
By Jamal Shahid
ISLAMABAD, July 6: British journalist Yvonne Ridley called for help on Sunday for a Pakistani woman she believes is being held in isolation by the Americans in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan, for over four years.�I call her the �grey lady� because she is almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her,� Ms Ridley said at a press conference, urging Pakistanis to help her.
Ms Ridley, who has come to Pakistan to appeal for help, said the case came to her attention when she read the Enemy Combatant, a book by former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg. After being seized in February 2002 in Islamabad, Mr Begg was kept in detention centres in Kandahar and Bagram for about a year before he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. He recounted his experiences in the book after his release in 2005.
Ms Ridley read the text from the book�s section covering Mr Begg�s stay in Bagram: �I began to hear the chilling screams of a woman next door� Why have you got a woman next door? They told me there was no woman. But I was unconvinced. Those screams echoed through my worst nightmares for a long time. And I later learned in Guantanamo, from other prisoners, that they had heard the screams too.�
She said the account had been corroborated by four Arabs who had escaped from Bagram in July 2005. �While on the run, one not only confirmed he had heard a woman�s screams, but said he had seen her.�
Ms Ridley, who was detained in Afghanistan for 10 days by the Taliban in September 2001, said, �My story made international headlines, front page pictures and major stories on TV. But there has not been one word, not one paragraph about Prisoner 650 -- the �grey lady� of Bagram, a murderous detention facility under control of US military and intelligence services.�
Demanding her immediate release from US military�s detention, Ms Ridley said: �We don�t know her identity, the state of her mind, the extent of the abuse or torture. What I do know is that this would never happen to a western woman. Don�t they value a Muslim woman. Is her life worthless?�
She urged every Pakistani to ring America, ask them who Prisoner 650 was. What was her crime? Who else was being held illegally? How many secret detention centres were there?
Ms Ridley�s colleague Saghir Hussain gave details about other people of the country who had �disappeared�.
�All, like the grey lady of Bagram, have been illegally abducted by secretive intelligence agencies. They began disappearing in 2001 during the so-called war on terror,� he said.
Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan demanded that the government should hold an investigation into the case. �What has the sovereign parliament done about the missing persons?� he asked.
If your a pakistani and #### happens, make sure you have a gun, no matter where you are. If things like this happen, make sure you go down fighting, being captured will lead to a lot worse.
The SSG should raid the effin place and bring her back!
QUOTE(JamD @ Jul 19 2008, 04:02 AM) 
The SSG should raid the effin place and bring her back!
LOL, she was abducted by our agencies and handed over to Yanks.....
QUOTE(JamD @ Jul 19 2008, 05:02 PM)
The SSG should raid the effin place and bring her back!
Our beghairat gov. can't do sh*t.They'll p*ss in their pants even if they hear this suggestion.
QUOTE(JamD @ Jul 19 2008, 04:02 PM)
The SSG should raid the effin place and bring her back!
Just so you are clear, do you know how many "Serving" personnel Pakistan has secretly abducted via SB/IB and handed over to Uncle Sam? If that can be done with people who serve the nation in uniform well think what they could do to Joe/Jane average?
QUOTE(schmuck @ Jul 19 2008, 04:03 PM)
LOL, she was abducted by our agencies and handed over to Yanks.....
and many supported that citing the dollars received in return....apparently if money is right its ok to kidnap anyone and hand over to the US.
At least her release should be demanded by government but apparently it is all silence here
From today's Dawn
FBI concedes Aafia Siddiqui in US custody: lawyer
By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, Aug 3: 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.
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, disappeared with her three children while visiting her parents’ home in Karachi in March 2003, around the same time the FBI announced that it wanted to question her over her alleged links to Al Qaeda.
Her family’s lawyer Elaine Whitfield Sharp said she believed recent media reports about Mrs Siddiqui’s incarceration increased pressure on the US and Pakistani authorities to divulge more information.
“I don’t believe that they just found Aafia,” she said. “I believe that she was there all along.”
The fate of her three young, American-born children is still unknown.
Before her disappearance, Mrs Siddiqui lived in a Boston suburb of Roxbury and studied at Brandeis University as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In a 2006 report, Amnesty International listed Mrs Siddiqui as among a number of “disappeared” suspects in the war on terrorism. On July 6, 2007, AI listed Mrs Siddiqui as a possible CIA “secret detainee”, although she was still on the FBI’s Seeking Information - Terrorism list. Late last week, Mrs Siddiqui’s photo still appeared on the FBI’s list of people wanted for questioning.
Since no charges were ever filed against her, human rights groups treated her case as that of “extrajudicial detention”, although no government ever claimed detaining her.
Even the FBI does not mention any charges in the notice seeking information about her. “Although the FBI has no information indicating this individual is connected to specific terrorist activities, the FBI would like to locate and question this individual,” says the notice.
The “gray lady of Bagram”: On July 7, a British journalist Yvonne Ridley told a news conference in Islamabad that a Pakistani woman had been held in solitary confinement for years at the Bagram US base near Kabul. The identity of this prisoner remains unconfirmed. She has been nicknamed the “gray lady of Bagram”. Ms Ridley, however, speculated that she was Aafia Siddiqui.
Moazzam Begg and several other former captives also have reported that a female prisoner, prisoner 650, was held in Bagram. The former captives claim that she has lost her sanity and cries all the time.
Although it is still not clear if the “gray lady of Bagram” is Aafia Siddiqui, her family’s attorney told reporters on Friday that the FBI had finally conceded that Mrs Siddiqui is in US custody.
“It has been confirmed by the FBI that Aafia Siddiqui is alive,” said Ms Sharp, who said she spoke to an FBI official on Thursday.
“She is injured but alive, and she is in Afghanistan.”
For five years, US and Pakistani authorities denied knowing her whereabouts. But human rights groups and Mrs Siddiqui’s relatives had long suspected that she had been captured in Karachi and secretly taken into custody.
On Thursday, an FBI official visited Mrs Siddiqui’s brother in Houston to deliver the news that she was alive and in custody, Ms Sharp said.
FBI officials, however, would not say who was holding her or reveal the fate of her children.
“If she’s in US custody, they want to know where she is,” Ms Sharp said. “Who has got her? And does she need medical care?”
The FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment.
US military documents declassified in recent years suggest that Mrs Siddiqui is suspected of having ties to several key terrorism suspects being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
She is believed to have links to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and allegedly arranged travel documents for another suspected terrorist.
Papers in Guantanamo Bay also indicate that she married Ali Abd Al Aziz Ali, an alleged Al Qaeda facilitator who intended to blow up petrol stations or poison water reservoirs in the United States.
The three men were among 14 high-value suspects brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2006 after years of secret detention in CIA prisons in Eastern Europe.
Reading this made my blood boil. The previous government is partly responsible for this as they instituted this policy of letting America grab who they want and bypassing the law.
Every US based muslim reading this, should be emailing their congressman/woman to ask why this woman is being held and what has happened to her children.
contact details are available from the congress web site http://www.house.gov/ (top left hand corner enter your zip code)
get all your relatives and friends to also write their representatives, by emailing them this story.
FBI concedes Aafia Siddiqui in US custody: lawyer
By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, Aug 3: 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.
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, disappeared with her three children while visiting her parents’ home in Karachi in March 2003, around the same time the FBI announced that it wanted to question her over her alleged links to Al Qaeda.
Her family’s lawyer Elaine Whitfield Sharp said she believed recent media reports about Mrs Siddiqui’s incarceration increased pressure on the US and Pakistani authorities to divulge more information.
“I don’t believe that they just found Aafia,” she said. “I believe that she was there all along.”
The fate of her three young, American-born children is still unknown.
Before her disappearance, Mrs Siddiqui lived in a Boston suburb of Roxbury and studied at Brandeis University as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In a 2006 report, Amnesty International listed Mrs Siddiqui as among a number of “disappeared” suspects in the war on terrorism. On July 6, 2007, AI listed Mrs Siddiqui as a possible CIA “secret detainee”, although she was still on the FBI’s Seeking Information - Terrorism list. Late last week, Mrs Siddiqui’s photo still appeared on the FBI’s list of people wanted for questioning.
Since no charges were ever filed against her, human rights groups treated her case as that of “extrajudicial detention”, although no government ever claimed detaining her.
Even the FBI does not mention any charges in the notice seeking information about her. “Although the FBI has no information indicating this individual is connected to specific terrorist activities, the FBI would like to locate and question this individual,” says the notice.
The “gray lady of Bagram”: On July 7, a British journalist Yvonne Ridley told a news conference in Islamabad that a Pakistani woman had been held in solitary confinement for years at the Bagram US base near Kabul. The identity of this prisoner remains unconfirmed. She has been nicknamed the “gray lady of Bagram”. Ms Ridley, however, speculated that she was Aafia Siddiqui.
Moazzam Begg and several other former captives also have reported that a female prisoner, prisoner 650, was held in Bagram. The former captives claim that she has lost her sanity and cries all the time.
Although it is still not clear if the “gray lady of Bagram” is Aafia Siddiqui, her family’s attorney told reporters on Friday that the FBI had finally conceded that Mrs Siddiqui is in US custody.
“It has been confirmed by the FBI that Aafia Siddiqui is alive,” said Ms Sharp, who said she spoke to an FBI official on Thursday.
“She is injured but alive, and she is in Afghanistan.”
For five years, US and Pakistani authorities denied knowing her whereabouts. But human rights groups and Mrs Siddiqui’s relatives had long suspected that she had been captured in Karachi and secretly taken into custody.
On Thursday, an FBI official visited Mrs Siddiqui’s brother in Houston to deliver the news that she was alive and in custody, Ms Sharp said.
FBI officials, however, would not say who was holding her or reveal the fate of her children.
“If she’s in US custody, they want to know where she is,” Ms Sharp said. “Who has got her? And does she need medical care?”
The FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment.
US military documents declassified in recent years suggest that Mrs Siddiqui is suspected of having ties to several key terrorism suspects being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
She is believed to have links to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and allegedly arranged travel documents for another suspected terrorist.
Papers in Guantanamo Bay also indicate that she married Ali Abd Al Aziz Ali, an alleged Al Qaeda facilitator who intended to blow up petrol stations or poison water reservoirs in the United States.
The three men were among 14 high-value suspects brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2006 after years of secret detention in CIA prisons in Eastern Europe.
Reading this made my blood boil. The previous government is partly responsible for this as they instituted this policy of letting America grab who they want and bypassing the law.
Every US based muslim reading this, should be emailing their congressman/woman to ask why this woman is being held and what has happened to her children.
contact details are available from the congress web site http://www.house.gov/ (top left hand corner enter your zip code)
get all your relatives and friends to also write their representatives, by emailing them this story.
Al-Qaeda woman suspect sent to US
A Pakistani woman suspected of links with al-Qaeda has been extradited to the US from Afghanistan to face charges of trying to kill American agents.
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a former US resident, was arrested on 17 July in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.
When US military officials went to pick Mrs Siddiqui up from the detention centre, she fired two rounds at them.
While she did not hit anyone, she was shot in the chest by a US officer who returned fire.
A US attorney said Mrs Siddiqui, who is married with three children and is a former student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is scheduled to appear at New York's Southern District court.
At the time of her arrest, Mrs Siddiqui was carrying documents on how to make explosives and descriptions of various US landmarks, including in New York City, in her handbag, said Michael Garcia, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. (lol! terrorists carry plans, maps and formulas in hand bags!!, looks like CIA has hired services of a bhindian film writer)
Mrs Siddiqui is charged with assaulting US officers and employees and attempting to kill US officers and employees.
If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each charge, Garcia said.
Mrs Siddiqui's lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, called the charges "a tall story" and disputed claims by the US that her client had gone underground for several years before her capture.
Her family believes that Mrs Siddiqui was secretly held by US agents since her disappearance in Pakistan in 2003, before authorities finally brought charges to justify her detention.
"I believe she's become a terrible embarrassment to them, but she's not a terrorist," Ms Sharp was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
"When the truth comes out, people will see she did nothing wrong."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7542249.stm
A Pakistani woman suspected of links with al-Qaeda has been extradited to the US from Afghanistan to face charges of trying to kill American agents.
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a former US resident, was arrested on 17 July in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.
When US military officials went to pick Mrs Siddiqui up from the detention centre, she fired two rounds at them.
While she did not hit anyone, she was shot in the chest by a US officer who returned fire.
A US attorney said Mrs Siddiqui, who is married with three children and is a former student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is scheduled to appear at New York's Southern District court.
At the time of her arrest, Mrs Siddiqui was carrying documents on how to make explosives and descriptions of various US landmarks, including in New York City, in her handbag, said Michael Garcia, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. (lol! terrorists carry plans, maps and formulas in hand bags!!, looks like CIA has hired services of a bhindian film writer)
Mrs Siddiqui is charged with assaulting US officers and employees and attempting to kill US officers and employees.
If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each charge, Garcia said.
Mrs Siddiqui's lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, called the charges "a tall story" and disputed claims by the US that her client had gone underground for several years before her capture.
Her family believes that Mrs Siddiqui was secretly held by US agents since her disappearance in Pakistan in 2003, before authorities finally brought charges to justify her detention.
"I believe she's become a terrible embarrassment to them, but she's not a terrorist," Ms Sharp was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
"When the truth comes out, people will see she did nothing wrong."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7542249.stm
Dr Aafia’s life is in danger, says sister
KARACHI, Aug 12: Dr Fouzia Siddiqui has expressed fears that American agencies might kill her sister, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a PhD in neuro-cognitive science who has reportedly been under detention for more than five years for her alleged links with Al Qaeda, saying that one Saood Memon was earlier tortured to death by the agencies before his production in court.
Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday, she said her sister, escorted by US soldiers and agency personnel, was brought on a wheelchair to court.
“Dr Aafia could not even stand due to her wounds,” she said, adding that it seemed as if she was not being provided any medical treatment.
Dr Fouzia, a neurologist who used to work at Mount Sinai hospital in New York, said she learnt from some media reports that the kidneys of her sister were not working yet the US government did not allow her to consult a doctor.
Quoting her brother, who managed to meet Dr Aafia in court after getting permission from the authorities concerned, she said that her sister was near death.
“The inhuman treatment being meted out to her is a slap on face of American civilisation,” she said, adding that even her two children who had the US nationality were being deprived of basic human rights.
Her only mistake was that she wore a headscarf and offered regular prayers which the US did not like, Dr Fouzia said, alleging that the local security agencies were fully involved in handing over her to Americans. “Without the active help of Pakistani agencies it was not possible [for the United States] to shift my sister abroad,” she said.
If the scientist was involved in any criminal activity, her trial should be conducted in Pakistan, she said.
President of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Karachi chapter, Khalid Khawaja said that he had repeatedly contacted on phone the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani, and requested him to ask the American government to provide medical facilities and other human rights to Dr Aafia. However, the US authorities did not pay attention to their sentiments.
He demanded that the government of Pakistan give “the required surety to the US authorities regarding Dr Aafia as she was a Pakistani citizen.”—PPI
http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/13/local4.htm
I now pray that may ALLAH take our sister Dr. Afia Siddiqui in HIS Eternal Mercy and Blessings and enter her in Jannatul Firdous. We are a bunch of faggots who can't do anything to release their sister in the clutches of these most evil ppl... instead we are those who ourselves handed over our sister and her izzat to them... No wonder we are ridiculed the world over and we should be.
I wonder how the Muslims were at the time of Muhammad bin Qasim when a Muslim woman was captured by the Hindu badmash king at Debal and the Muslim Army was mobilized at that time resulting in the conquest of India by the Muslims and look at us now... Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihe rajeoon for the ummah as well.
May Allah grant us ghairat b4 we die a beghairat death.
KARACHI, Aug 12: Dr Fouzia Siddiqui has expressed fears that American agencies might kill her sister, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a PhD in neuro-cognitive science who has reportedly been under detention for more than five years for her alleged links with Al Qaeda, saying that one Saood Memon was earlier tortured to death by the agencies before his production in court.
Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday, she said her sister, escorted by US soldiers and agency personnel, was brought on a wheelchair to court.
“Dr Aafia could not even stand due to her wounds,” she said, adding that it seemed as if she was not being provided any medical treatment.
Dr Fouzia, a neurologist who used to work at Mount Sinai hospital in New York, said she learnt from some media reports that the kidneys of her sister were not working yet the US government did not allow her to consult a doctor.
Quoting her brother, who managed to meet Dr Aafia in court after getting permission from the authorities concerned, she said that her sister was near death.
“The inhuman treatment being meted out to her is a slap on face of American civilisation,” she said, adding that even her two children who had the US nationality were being deprived of basic human rights.
Her only mistake was that she wore a headscarf and offered regular prayers which the US did not like, Dr Fouzia said, alleging that the local security agencies were fully involved in handing over her to Americans. “Without the active help of Pakistani agencies it was not possible [for the United States] to shift my sister abroad,” she said.
If the scientist was involved in any criminal activity, her trial should be conducted in Pakistan, she said.
President of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Karachi chapter, Khalid Khawaja said that he had repeatedly contacted on phone the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani, and requested him to ask the American government to provide medical facilities and other human rights to Dr Aafia. However, the US authorities did not pay attention to their sentiments.
He demanded that the government of Pakistan give “the required surety to the US authorities regarding Dr Aafia as she was a Pakistani citizen.”—PPI
http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/13/local4.htm
I now pray that may ALLAH take our sister Dr. Afia Siddiqui in HIS Eternal Mercy and Blessings and enter her in Jannatul Firdous. We are a bunch of faggots who can't do anything to release their sister in the clutches of these most evil ppl... instead we are those who ourselves handed over our sister and her izzat to them... No wonder we are ridiculed the world over and we should be.
I wonder how the Muslims were at the time of Muhammad bin Qasim when a Muslim woman was captured by the Hindu badmash king at Debal and the Muslim Army was mobilized at that time resulting in the conquest of India by the Muslims and look at us now... Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihe rajeoon for the ummah as well.
May Allah grant us ghairat b4 we die a beghairat death.
Dr Aafia’s extradition
Another petition filed in IHC
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
By our correspondent
Islamabad: Barrister Muhammad Iqbal Jafree has filed another writ petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for extradition of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui from the US.
Talking to 'The News' on telephone, Jafree said that the government has been delaying this case and officials were talking with US authorities only on telephone while no written request has been made till this time. He has also mentioned about the non-cooperative behaviour of the government officials in his petition before the court.
Barrister Jafree prayed to the court that without wasting time, the ministries of interior and foreign affairs should be directed to submit a written request to the US to return Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her two children. In case the US government does not respond to the call, the Pakistan government should refer this matter to the International Court of Justice in Hague under the 1959 treaty between the two countries.
Jafree prayed to the court to direct the foreign secretary and interior secretary to appear before the court in person on September 26. Jafree has filed another intra court appeal for the release of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, saying that the Ministry of Interior has flouted the decision of the IHC and Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was still under detention.
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=137718
Another petition filed in IHC
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
By our correspondent
Islamabad: Barrister Muhammad Iqbal Jafree has filed another writ petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for extradition of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui from the US.
Talking to 'The News' on telephone, Jafree said that the government has been delaying this case and officials were talking with US authorities only on telephone while no written request has been made till this time. He has also mentioned about the non-cooperative behaviour of the government officials in his petition before the court.
Barrister Jafree prayed to the court that without wasting time, the ministries of interior and foreign affairs should be directed to submit a written request to the US to return Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her two children. In case the US government does not respond to the call, the Pakistan government should refer this matter to the International Court of Justice in Hague under the 1959 treaty between the two countries.
Jafree prayed to the court to direct the foreign secretary and interior secretary to appear before the court in person on September 26. Jafree has filed another intra court appeal for the release of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, saying that the Ministry of Interior has flouted the decision of the IHC and Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was still under detention.
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The Pakistani-American Congress (PAC) is asking people to sign a petition - http://www.gopetition.com/online/22570.html
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