Free Dr Aafia Siddiqui
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Julian Assange has managed to escape the Kafkian hell that is the American judicial system. As much as they like to congratulate themselves on their freedom, the reality is that the American judicial system is savage and barbaric against anyone that they take a dislike to.
Aafia Siddiqui's story is shocking. The video below is around 100 minutes long but worth watching if you can spare the time. If you are short on time then please watch the last 4 minutes to find out what you can do to help Aafia Siddiqui.
Clive Stafford Smith is a hero of our times who has taken on the byzantine legal system of America; a system full of noble words but cruel deeds; of fine principles but crude practices. A system that was set up by the finest minds of their time and now executed by the dross of society.
The allegations against Aafia Siddiqui are laughable. A slight woman of 5’4”, she is supposed to have over-powered an American marine, snatched their rifle and shot at her captors. The details of the allegations are pure fantasy; some details clearly fabrications.
How Aafia Sidiqui ended up in solitary confinement, in a maximum-security jail in America is explained in the video. It is a tragic story, telling a terrible wrong done to an innocent woman.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani neuroscientist who was educated in the United States. In 2003, she disappeared with her three children in Karachi, Pakistan.
Her whereabouts were unknown until 2008, when she was arrested in Afghanistan. The U.S. government accused her of attempting to shoot American soldiers and FBI agents during an interrogation.
She was subsequently extradited to the U.S. and sentenced to 86 years in prison in 2010
Stafford Smith has highlighted the severe physical and psychological torture Siddiqui has endured during her detention. He says that Siddiqui was held in secret prisons, subjected to brutal interrogations, and denied basic human rights. Her mental health has reportedly deteriorated significantly as a result of her treatment.
The circumstances of Siddiqui's disappearance in 2003 remain unclear. Stafford Smith suggests that she was abducted by Pakistani intelligence and handed over to U.S. authorities.
Siddiqui's case is an egregious example of the injustices and human rights violations associated with U.S. foreign policy and the war on terror.
How Can You Help?
Sign this petition asking that Affia Siddiqui be freed.
Support Clive Stafford Smith with encouragement and by writing to Aafia Siddiqui via Clive (details below).
All correspondence sent to Aafia will be scrutinised by the US authorities, so keep the correspondence politics-free and non-controversial. Tell Aafia about where you live; tell her about the colour of the trees; about your school or about the last book you read. Send her some poem or words that have inspired you and that she may find comfort in.
Aafia needs to be treated like a human being, something she will not find in that Kafkian hell she is currently being held in.
Aafia is not allowed visitors. Dr Omer Suleiman would like to visit Aafia. Write to the prison director (CRW-ExecAssistant-S@bop.gov) requesting that Aafia be allowed pastoral care and visits from an Imam.
If you are short on time then please watch the last 4 minutes to find out what you can do to help Aafia Siddiqui
you can write to Clive Stafford Smith:
clive@justiceleague.org.uk clivestaffordsmith2020@gmail.com
Write to Aafia (English only as Americans will not accept Urdu) to give her the moral support she needs; send her your favourite poem, tell her about where you live, just the normal stuff that you might want to receive if you'd been locked up for 20 years - anything to show her that she is has not been forgotten. letters4aafia@gmail.com