FREE Aafia Siddiqui: World Wide Protests, Candle Light Vigils Planned Across the World

PROTESTS and Candle light vigils were planned in various countries in support of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.The start of Dr. Aafia Aiddiqui trial has been declared “Free Dr Aafia Siddiqui Day” across the U.S., UK, Pakistan, Australia, Spain, Qatar, Turkey, and Middle East.

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s trial will begin on Tuesday, January 19th 2010 at 9:00am.

New Yorkers will gather in front of Federal Court at 500 Pearl St in lower Manhattan from 8 to 9 am at Federal Court Building in solidarity with Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.

In Pakistan Dr Aafia Siddiqui is considered to be a ‘Daughter of the nation”. The Pakistani Parliament passed an overwhelming resolution in support of her and has forced the government to pay for her legal defense in U.S. courts.

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s torture and secret detention by U.S. forces in Afghanistan aroused enormous anger and indignation. Her continued imprisonment in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and the continuing brutal strip searches that she is subjected are internationally condemned.

Dr. Aafia is a 36-year-old Pakistani woman who is a U.S. educated neuroscientist. She was illegally kidnapped with her three young children in Karachi, Pakistan in 2003 and taken to U.S. custody in Afghanistan, where she was held in secret detention and tortured for 5 years. She was shot and severely wounded during an interrogation by FBI agents in July 2008. She is charged with attempted murder of FBI agent(s) in Afghanistan. According to the prosecutors and all U.S. officials, she has no links to any ‘terrorist organizations’. Forensic evidence supports Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s innocence. Dr. Aafia’s fingerprints were NOT on any gun, nor her DNA nor any residue nor any bullets.

The only fact that all witnesses agree on is that Dr. Aafia herself was shot by U.S. personnel then taken from Ghazni to Bagram and finally flown to New York to be charged. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui at every court appearance continues to refuse her lawyers, to declare to the court that she has been tortured and to decry the pain of strip searches.

Her sister Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui, and family, her friends and her lawyers believe her continuing statements that she was tortured in Afghanistan and the children were terrorized in US custody. The family and friends have fought for support from the Pakistani government and international human rights organizations.

Stand for humane treatment and stand against injustice! Standing for Dr. Aafia brings light to all missing persons, victims of extraordinary rendition and people held in secret prisons. It sends the message that all human beings, especially – our sisters – Muslim women have rights!

I can never forget the way you have treated me -- but I will forgive."
Dr. Aafia to Judge Berman

Facebook Group:

Dr. Afia Siddiqui - Prisoner 650
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21777867538&ref=ts

Release Dr. Afia Siddiqui! (Urgent Appeal)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28530506102&ref=ts

Please sign The Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/af258633/petition.html

Spread the word by email & SMS to all your contacts so as to create more pressure.

DEFENDING AND SUPPORT DR. AAFIA SIDDIQUI (KARACHI PROTEST)

DEAR ALL PAKISTANIES, IF WE CAN COME ON THE ROADS FOR THE POLITICAL PARTIES THEN WHY COULD NOT FOR OUR SISTER FREEDOM OF AFIA SIDDIQUI.

WE REQUEST ALL CITIZENS OF PAKISTAN

wake up we all should join hands in this public campaign and start some public campaign on our ends as well. It time to go far beyond then just this blog and lets pray for her good health, as she is now in critical conditions as parts of her body are also removed, and also pray for her early release

We are a volatile Nation, if we stand united and don’t take their bullshit we might be able to save quite much of disturbance in our country, we are already dealing with a lot.

WHO IS AAFIA SIDDIQUI?

* Detained Incommunicado for five years
* Abused physically and psychologically
* 11 year old son in custody in Afghanistan
* Her two youngest children remain missing

Aafia Siddiqui now faces trial in the US in circumstances that can only be described as strange at best. Questions remain as to her own whereabouts over the last five years and still that of her children.

Her medical condition is currently extremely poor as she suffers from gun shot wounds, and part of her intestine has been removed. Her condition is not made any easier by the flights of stairs she is forced to climb by herself in her condition during visits and the strip and cavity searches that she is forced to endure.

Please design and bring your own banners!

* The entire world should come out to help innocent Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
* UN Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Amnesty International should take action on Dr. Afia issue
Ensure Dr. Aafia treated according to U.S. & international Law .

SUPPORTED BY:
Islamic Human Rights Commission (www.ihrc.org)
CAMPACC (www.campacc.org.uk)
The Peoples Resistance
DR. AAFIA SIDDIQUI DEFENDING AND SUPPORT GROUP (Dr. Afia Siddiqui - Prisoner 650)