SAVE DR AFFIA SIDDIQUI

Jump to: navigation, search عافیہ صدیقی Aafia Siddiqui Born March 2, 1972 (age 40) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan Other names 'Prisoner 650', 'Grey lady of Baghram' Citizenship Pakistani[1][2] Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Brandeis University (PhD) Occupation former Neuroscientist[3] Height 5' 4"[4] Weight 90 pounds (at time of arraignment)[4] Board member of Institute of Islamic Research and Teaching (President)[5][6] Criminal penalty Convicted; sentenced to 86 years in prison.[7][8] Criminal status being held in the FMC Carswell federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.[7] Spouse Amjad Mohammed Khan (1995 – October 21, 2002) (divorced) Ammar al-Baluchi, also known as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali (February 2003–present) Children Mohammad Ahmed (b. 1996); Mariam Bint Muhammad (b. 1998); and Suleman (b. September 2002) Relatives awards footnotes = Aafia Siddiqui (Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born March 2, 1972) is an American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist,[9] related by marriage to terrorist-mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.[3][10][11] Not long after the September 11 attacks, Dr. Siddiqui left the United States for Pakistan in 2002. After the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in March 2003 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by the Inter-Services Intelligence, he has stated he gave names of innocent people under torture to "please his captors" and Siddiqui’s lawyers believe her name was one of these.[12].[13] After she was named by him, Siddiqui disappeared for five years. Siddiqui and her children's whereabouts and activities from March 2003 to July 2008 are a matter of dispute. She reappeared in Afghanistan under detention in 2008. Although authorities claimed she was found in possession of bomb-making instructions and materiel (including sodium cyanide) at the time of her arrest in Afghanistan,[14][15][16] Dr. Siddiqui was not charged for any terrorist-related activities. Instead she was tried and convicted in U.S. federal court for assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan - charges that carried a maximum sentence of life in prison.[17] Siddiqui was ultimately sentenced by a United States district court to 86 years in prison in a trial that critics have called "a grave miscarriage of justice".[14]