USA: The case against Dr Aafia Siddiqui at Human Rights Digest Following up on the article about Dr Aafia Siddiqui a few days ago, Dr Siddiqui went on trial in the US yesterday in a case that raises more questions than ...
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Following up on the article about Dr Aafia Siddiqui a few days ago, Dr Siddiqui went on trial in the US yesterday in a case that raises more questions than answers and has provoked anger and concern from Islamabad to New York.
Aafia Siddiqui is charged with trying to kill American troops in Afghanistan last month.
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The US Congress must investigate Dr. Afia's case
August 20, 2008: Afghanistan lives in fear of US-sponsored warlords. These hated warlords are not scared by the Taliban monster raising its head in the south. But ironically, they live in the fear of an unarmed women in her late twenties: Malalai Joya.
To silence Joya's defiant voice, the warlords who dominate the national parliament suspended Joya's membership for three years in 2007. Earlier, at almost every parliamentary session she attended, she had her hair pulled or was physically attacked, and called names such as "whore". "They even threatened me in the parliament with rape", she says. But she neither toned down her criticism of the warlords ("they must be tried") nor the US occupation of her country ("the 'war on terror' is a mockery"). Understandably, she's been declared the "bravest woman in Afghanistan" and even compared with Burma's Aung Sun Suu Kyi.