A lawyer of Aafia Siddiqi, a Pakistani woman jailed in USA, has arrived in Afghanistan to collect more evidence in support of his client.
Clive Stafford Smith addressed a press conference in Kabul and claimed that he has two witnesses from the Ghazni province who will prove that Siddiqui was unjustly arrested in Ghazni in 2008.
Smith, a British-American defense attorney for Aafia Siddiqui, said: “I want to begin by thanking the government of your country for the immense help that they have given us in working to get justice for Aafia Siddiqui, and the purpose of this press conference from my perspective is to solicit your help and the help of the people who watched and listen and read your media, and to get justice for Aafia Siddiqui and her family.”
Reportedly, Aafia Siddiqui was arrested in 2008 on charges of carrying explosives and attempting to kill an American soldier in Ghazni.
Mohammad Ajmal, a resident of Ghazni who witnessed Siddiqui’s arrest in 2008, said that she did not have any materials with her at the time of the arrest.
“Her scarf fell off twice and her face became visible. They saw that she had nothing on her, and they grabbed her by the arms and legs and threw her into the Ranger in a way that no one would even treat an animal,” said Mohammad Ajmal.
Malang, a former detainee at Guantanamo, said about this incident: “When we saw the men arresting her, we were upset. She is a woman and a female soldier should come and arrest her.”
Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neurologist, is now being held in Texas, in the United States.
The United States said that one of Siddiqui’s family members was involved in the September 11, 2001 attack and that she is also accused of being an Al-Qaeda operative.
Aafia Siddiqui was sentenced in 2010 to 86 years in prison in the United States and is currently serving her sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who immigrated to the United States in 1990 and disappeared in 2003 while visiting her family in Karachi, Pakistan; however, five years later, she was arrested in Ghazni on charges of carrying explosives and transferred to America
