Updates on Sr. Aafia Siddiqui August 21, 2008
Posted by revolution in : News, Sorrow, United States of Losers, Videos , trackback
[Aafia and her 12 year old son Ahmad, being questioned in front of the media by Afghan officials. Ghazni, Afghanistan, July 17th 2008]
May Allah save us from the Hellfire for seeing our Sister in such a horrible state and staying quiet.
Here are a few updates regarding our Sister, Aafia Siddiqui (may Allah free her).
1.
PROTEST - COURT HEARING FOR AAFIA SIDDIQUI
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
2:00pmUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York
500 Pearl Street
Manhattan, NYThe hearing is on 3rd September is at the United States District Court (U.S.D.C.) for the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y), located at 500 Pearl Street, Manhattan.
The hearing will start at 2:30pm
Cageprisoners suggests that concerned inviduals who cannot attend organise their own local protests in solidarity.
contact@cageprisoners.com
BACKGROUNDDr Aafia Siddiqui, the American educated Pakistani scientist and mother of three was detained for years by the US in Bagram. She has been the victim of the US programme of secret detention for five years since having been kidnapped in Karachi by Pakistan security services in 2003 along with her three children.
On Monday 4th August 2008, federal prosecutors in the US confirmed that Aafia Siddiqui was extradited to the US from Afghanistan where they allege she had been detained since mid-July 2008. The US administration claims that she was arrested by Afghani forces outside Ghazni governor’s compound with manuals on explosives and ‘dangerous substances in sealed jars’ on her person. They further allege that whilst in custody she shot at US officers and was injured in the process.
According to her lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, “We do know she was at Bagram for a long time. It was a long time. According to my client she was there for years and she was held in American custody; her treatment was horrendous.”
Aafia’s claim is contrary to the heavily contested position of the US administration that she was detained in July by Afghan forces while attempting to bomb the compound of the governor of Ghazni. The US has previously denied the presence of female detainees in Bagram and that Aafia was ever held there, bar for medical treatment in July 2008.
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.
2. Initial Questioning of Aafia Siddiqui in Afghanistan
3. Protest for Dr Aafia Siddiqui - Speech by Yvonne Ridley
If you haven’t written a letter to Sr. Aafia Siddiqui, please do so by clicking here.
May Allah save us from the Hellfire for failing to protect our Sister.
Comments»
We have lost our honour and dignity.
Can anyone imagine the helplessness of a mother when her son is being harassed and made to pose for the camera and she cannot do anything?
You are right brother Hell must be eager to swallow people like me who sit at home and do nothing.
May Allah (SWT) forgive us as we are so senseless. May Allah forgive us as we passing our days of life in an ordinary manner, our lives are not going through a revolution. She is a brave woman, who is on Isteqamah even after this cruel torture. May Allah protect here and guide us right.
Aameen
May Almighty ALLAh save our sister Dr aafia siddique from the hellfire.we shame on our selves that we can not do for our sister.She is really a brave and courgeous woman.I pray to ALMIGHTY ALLAH to help our helpless sister on the behalf of his prophet (S.A.W). may Allah realease her from all cases successfully
We Muslims have this very bad habit of looking up to Allah when we ourselves dont want to do anything. The treatment of Aafia Siddiqui shouldnt be an outrage for a community that has forgotten the teachings of its progenitors and cast into oblivion the very principals that became the fundamentals of its success in the world. The U.S was able to treat Afia and her children this way because they very well acknowledged that the Muslim world is too divided and too engrossed in their own lives to actually do something substantial for Afia. The case of this helpless, unfateful woman is in the lime light so it is succeeding in attaching our conscience but we are ignorant of the agony of innumerable innocent Muslim prisoners in other American prisons e-g Guantanamo, Abu Graib etc… They are being tortured each day but do we really care? How many of us are actually willing to leave our comforts and strive for their rights?
If we really, truly want to curb the injustice comitted against Mulsims all over the world then we have to embrace the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet (P.B.U.H). We have to acquire intellect and excel in every field.
I tell you, the Muslim community doesnt have time for recreation. We have a much greater priority, that is of saving our necks.