86-year US jail term for Dr Siddiqui
A US federal court has sentenced Pakistani female scientist Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison for allegedly shooting at her American interrogators in Afghanistan. Judge Richard Berman read out the sentence at the federal court in New York on Thursday. "It is my judgment that Dr. Siddiqui is sentenced to a period of incarceration of 86 years." Siddiqui's lawyers have immediately pledged that they would appeal the harsh sentence. Siddiqui was charged, despite her fierece denial, with opening fire on FBI agents and US military personnel in a police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she was being interrogated in 2008.
Siddiqui vehemently denied all the charges against her during the trial, calling them 'ridiculous' and insisting that she was framed, jailed, and tortured by US agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was “pure psychological, emotional torture,” she said, describing her situation. "I thought it was a continuation of what had been done to me in my secret prison history," she said in late January. The conviction triggered protests in different parts of the Muslim world, where anti-US sentiments are already running high.
Stephen Lendman: Aafia Siddiqui Sentenced: A Grievous Miscarriage of Justice Earlier articles explained her case in detail, accessed through the following links, here, here and here.