| | February 14, 2011
| Vol 3, Issue 10
| | Dear sidd, | Shocking new revelations in a Special report published by International Justice Network (IJN) about Dr. Aafia's case and kidnapping in March 2003 confirm what supporters have been saying all along. In a secret audio recording released today, a senior Pakistani police official admits to the kidnap of Dr. Aafia in March 2003. More revelations about her children and the methods used by Pakistani intelligence and police to fabricate evidence against missing persons. ![]()
| | | IJN RELEASES NEW EVIDENCE IN CASE OF DR AAFIA SIDDIQUI - CALLS FOR REPATRIATION February 14, 2011. Early Monday morning, International Justice Network published a report regarding the highly controversial case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. Representing the Siddiqui Family in the United States, IJN has spent the past 14 months researching the circumstances surrounding the unusual arrest and custody of the Pakistani mother of three. Supported with previously unreleased evidence, IJN has uncovered direct involvement by Pakistan agencies in the disappearance of Dr. Aafia and her three young children in March 2003 -- five years before the US government claims she was first arrested in Afghanistan in July 2008. The report, Aafia Siddiqui: Just the Facts, reveals shocking new evidence that contradicts official statements from governments of both Pakistan and the United States that Dr. Siddiqui was not detained in their custody prior to her arrest in 2008. IJN has obtained a secret audio recording of a senior Pakistani police official who admits he was personally involved in the arrest of Dr. Siddiqui and her children eight years ago This account is corroborated by substantial documentary evidence and witness testimony, which all points to the same conclusion-that Dr. Siddiqui and her three children were initially arrested in March 2003 with the knowledge and cooperation of local authorities in Karachi, Pakistan, and subsequently interrogated by Pakistani military intelligence (ISI) as well as U.S. intelligence agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This shameful new revelation will not only establish a stage for holding specific political actors accountable for the grave injustice done to Dr. Siddiqui and her family, but should serve as a keystone for repairing the severed diplomatic ties between Pakistan and the United States. | | | ![http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=ar8nk6cab&et=1104517845431&s=2&e=001hgPBLadePqunLlegT-DZI-Y2ljFUIV5xJRZs9F7DdDZgyO0tdG5aAxkkYYV79OHgpUfb6tCoEOoPGH16oG01tgnFXxKIOFdJ-YKOEoo8CCg=]( "http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=ar8nk6cab&et=1104517845431&s=2&e=001hgPBLadePqunLlegT-DZI-Y2ljFUIV5xJRZs9F7DdDZgyO0tdG5aAxkkYYV79OHgpUfb6tCoEOoPGH16oG01tgnFXxKIOFdJ-YKOEoo8CCg=")
AAFIA SIDDIQUI - JUST THE FACTS a report by International Justice Network click on links below Executive Summary Full Report Video clip of Aafia at MIT Graduation "You can't build a case on hate. You should build it on facts." --Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (Trial Testimony, January 28, 2010) ==================== In a letter to Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, last week, IJN Executive Director, Tina M. Foster, urged the government of Pakistan to take immediate action to demand Dr. Siddiqui's repatriation, while the U.S. government is seeking the return of the Lahore shooter. In it, Ms. Foster stated: "The safety and security of all Pakistani citizens is compromised when U.S. government agents can kill civilians on Pakistani soil with impunity, while the daughter of the nation (who has never caused harm or injury to anyone) languishes in a Texas prison for a crime she didn't commit. Justice demands that Raymond Davis not be repatriated to the United States without securing the return of Dr. Siddiqui to Pakistan. The path is now clear. The only question that remains is whether the government of Pakistan is willing to take it."
The report and a copy of the secret audio recording are available on IJN's website, www.ijnetwork.org | | | | | 2003 Kidnap of Dr Aafia & Children Confirmed | ![http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=ar8nk6cab&et=1104517845431&s=2&e=001hgPBLadePqtm2ExVSu2Sede6bRWRO8lxSUoWZyi7lnS-ftodncjL2e2vFnFdW7WTDgR-EuZ0Ola7QXJfYOXFVZOh3I93G765rEGZyB5rbTYr7TpQQFxQiQQ0J25PerJXfjEjNyI7JSB2gZC5fZ2mXQ==]( "http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=ar8nk6cab&et=1104517845431&s=2&e=001hgPBLadePqtm2ExVSu2Sede6bRWRO8lxSUoWZyi7lnS-ftodncjL2e2vFnFdW7WTDgR-EuZ0Ola7QXJfYOXFVZOh3I93G765rEGZyB5rbTYr7TpQQFxQiQQ0J25PerJXfjEjNyI7JSB2gZC5fZ2mXQ==") SPECIAL REPORT A New Turn as Lawyers Release Explosive, Secretly Recorded Tape The Siddiqui Case By VICTORIA BRITTAIN Now new evidence of the kidnapping of Dr Siddiqui prises open part of one of the most shocking of the myriad individual stories of injustice in the war on terror. It also underlines the recklessness and perfidy of a key United States' partner in the war on terror, which carries its own threat of explosion. Dr Siddiqui was sentenced in a New York court last year to 86 years for attempted murder of US soldiers in Afghanistan. Her mysterious five-year disappearance before that, her reappearance in Afghanistan in 2008, her subsequent trial in the US, and the confusion surrounding all these events, have made Dr Siddiqui's a symbolic case in much of the Muslim world. Now a senior law enforcement officer has claimed to have been involved personally on the day she was seized, with her three children, by Pakistani police agents in Karachi in March 2003 and handed over to the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI. ... .....The new evidence, on a secretly recorded audio tape, is a potential earthquake in the chronically unstable political situation in Pakistan, where rage against the US runs deep and wide, especially as civilian casualties mount with the use of drone aircraft. Already the case of Aafia Siddiqui has periodically brought tens of thousands of people out on the streets in the last two and a half years in protest at what has been done to her by the United States' military and legal systems since she reemerged... ...A full report, and the four hour tape, in Urdu, Punjabi and English, is being released by the International Justice Network in the United States. Portions of the tape concerning Dr Siddiqui were made available to this reporter and were independently translated for this article... In the key passage in the tape for the Siddiqui case he is asked by: Voice 1 (who is the witness) "Did you arrest her?" V 2. "Yes, I arrested her. She wore glasses and a veil.... When she was caught she was travelling to Islamabad....She was hobnobbing with clerics. ..... V 1 " So what happened after the arrest. Did ISI ask for her custody?" V 2 "Yes, we gave her to ISI" V 1 "ISI or something else?" V 2 "ISI, so we gave her to them." The full article can be seen here: http://www.counterpunch.org/brittain02142011.html | | ![]() | ![http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102643129888]( "http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102643129888")
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| | Aafia for Davis: Pak Law Minister... Feb 14, 2011 Arab News ![]()
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's federal law minister has called on the US authorities to exchange a US national currently facing trial for a double murder in Lahore for a Pakistani doctor who was sentenced to 86 years in jail in the US. "We will demand the release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui if America demands the release of Raymond Davis," said Federal Law Minister Babar Awan at a press conference in Gujranwala on Sunday. The case of Davis, who shot dead two Pakistanis in late January, has raised tensions between Pakistan and the US. The US government insists he enjoys diplomatic immunity and should be released. Awan, who normally articulates the policy statements of President Asif Ali Zardari, has picked the line of the Jamaat-e-Islami, which has been demanding a prisoner exchange. President Zardari also recently canceled a visit to the US due to the case ======================== Govt urged to take bold steps for Aafia's release DAILY TIMES, Feb 06, 2011 KARACHI: There would be no difficulty in bringing Dr Aafia Siddiqui back home, if the government takes some bold steps. Senator Talha Mehmood expressed these views during a press conference at the residence of Dr Aafia on Saturday after meeting her family. Mehmood said that the government should follow the spirit of the United States government, which is supporting its citizen in an overwhelmed manner despite the fact the he shot two Pakistani citizens. The present government can gain complete trust of the Pakistani nation by taking a bold stance over Dr Aafia's issue, he said. ![]() Senator said that the Senate Standing Committee wants to visit the US to meet all those who are concerned with Dr Aafia's case in order to pursue it. A proposal has been sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the committee is awaiting the response in this regard. He regretted that till date not a single delegation had been sent to the US nor an official request had been made in Dr Aafia's case. The senator was of the view that Raymond Davis was a trained commando, not a diplomat and the way in which he killed the Pakistani citizens supports the viewpoint. On the occasion, Asmat Siddiqui, mother of Dr Aafia said that she could not curse the concerned Pakistani officials and rulers, who were responsible for the situation, because she felt that all Pakistanis were her children. Dr Fouzia Siddiqui said on the occasion that the US government, which is trying to free its spy on the pretext of Vienna Convention, had already set examples like this before various times. If Dr Aafia had committed a crime in Afghanistan then why didn't the US officials provide access to Pakistani diplomats to Aafia in Afghanistan, she said, and added that it was an open violence of the convention. The US did not follow the convention at that time, she added. ======================== Dr. Aafia Citizenship Confusion Settled The NEWS, Feb 08, 2011 ![]() ISLAMABAD: The family of Dr Aafia Saddiqui has closed the debate of her nationality once for ever. Mother of Dr Aafia showed three Pakistani passports of her daughter in Capital Talk of Geo News on Monday night and claimed that Dr Aafia did not have even a US green card. Rana Sanaullah and mother of Aafia were talking to Hamid Mir in Capital Talk.
Hamid Mir asked question about the possibility of double nationality of Dr Aafia, but her mother Ismat Saddiqui showed a US visa on the last passport of Dr Aafia... She said that US visa can only be issued to a non-US citizen. Sister of Dr Aafia read some parts of the US court verdict against Dr Aafia, in which it was clearly said that Dr Aafia is a 38 years old Pakistani citizen. Dr Fauzia Saddiqui said that the arrest of her sister from Afghanistan was also a violation of international law because Dr Aafia was not provided any consular access. ======================== Shoes Thrown at Gen. Musharraf for Selling Aafia GEO, Feb 07, 2011 ![]()
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