Aafia Siddiqui

Aafia Siddiqui Still Languishes in Prison After 20 Years

December 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Lawfare, Pakistan, Political Prisoners, Terrorism

by Judy Bello, December 22, 2023 Aafia Siddiqui, a young Pakistani woman from an upper middle class family in Karachi, came to the U.S. to attend the University of Houston where her brother was already a student, received her bachelors degree from MIT, and a doctorate from Brandeis University in neuropsychology. Her father, a doctor, had worked in Africa as[…]

Aafia Siddiqui, Political Prisoner

January 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Political Prisoners, Terrorism, Women

by Linda Ford, published on Countercurrents, January 18, 2022 Aafia Siddiqui (Her family likes to call her Dr. Aafia to remind people that she was a person of dignity and had achieved social credentials) is in prison in the US at Carswell Medical Facility because if her story were ever to become public, it would point to a war crime[…]

Free U.S. political prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui!

October 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Pakistan, Political Prisoners, Prisoners

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, October 21, 2021 Aafia Siddiqui was a young single mother, recently separated from her husband and returned to Pakistan from the US when Pakistani Intelligence police snatched her from a cab in Karachi along with her 3 young children and abducted her. The youngest child, an infant at the time, appears to have[…]