Aafia movement seeks to free Siddiqui
The US Embassy in Islamabad says the repatriation of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui pivots on two accords, but her family says they will start an Aafia movement to work for her release.
According to a report published by the Pakistani daily The Nation on Saturday, the Pakistani government has been informed that it has to sign the Council of Europe Treaty and the OAF Convention in order for Dr. Siddiqui to be returned to her homeland.
A court in New York sentenced Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison after she was found guilty of opening fire on FBI agents and US military personnel in a police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she was being interrogated in 2008.
The 38-year-old mother of three vanished in Karachi, Pakistan with her three children on March 30, 2003. The following day, local newspapers reported that she had been abducted by US forces and charged with terrorism.
Human rights groups say that Siddiqui had secretly been transferred to the US base in Bagram, north of Kabul, and tortured for five years prior to the alleged incident in 2008.
She was taken to the US and was convicted in a New York court on February 3.
In Karachi on Thursday, the family of Aafia Siddiqui vowed to launch a movement to get her released from prison in the United States.
Aafia’s sister Fowzia Siddiqui told reporters that all of Pakistan would agitate to get her sister freed.
“I was alone when I started the campaign to release my sister, but from now on it will be the Aafia movement as the whole nation is with me,” she said.
Source: presstv.ir
