The 'grey' prisoner
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The News International, Pakistan
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The FIA has approached America's FBI to be permitted access to Dr Aafia Siddiqui, on the basis that she is a Pakistani citizen and that questioning her could help unravel some of the mysteries of terrorism in the country. Certainly, the case of Dr Siddiqui remains just as covered in mist as it was in 2008, when she was traced after a UK journalist claimed she had been held at Bagram Jail. There are still no clear answers as to how she got here, after being taken away from Karachi in 2003. Her son, Ahmed, has described how he was blindfolded and chained by US officials while being shifted from one place to another. The boy, not yet a teenager at the time, also says he attended school for barely a month through these years.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The FIA has approached America's FBI to be permitted access to Dr Aafia Siddiqui, on the basis that she is a Pakistani citizen and that questioning her could help unravel some of the mysteries of terrorism in the country. Certainly, the case of Dr Siddiqui remains just as covered in mist as it was in 2008, when she was traced after a UK journalist claimed she had been held at Bagram Jail. There are still no clear answers as to how she got here, after being taken away from Karachi in 2003. Her son, Ahmed, has described how he was blindfolded and chained by US officials while being shifted from one place to another. The boy, not yet a teenager at the time, also says he attended school for barely a month through these years.
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Labels: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Human Rights, War on Terror
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