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| Dr Aafia's attorney dissatisfied with US justice system |
| 2010-12-22 |
| [Pak Daily Times] The attorney of Dr Aafia Siddiqui's family and executive director of the International Justice Network, Tina Monshipour Foster, has said that she is dissatisfied by the American justice system, especially after the court's decision on Dr Aafia's case. Foster, who is not directly representing Dr Aafia in the case but works as her family lawyer, was addressing a presser along with some activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, including Pasbaan President Altaf Shakoor, front man Farooq Chohan, Dr Fauzia Siddiqui and IJN researcher Sara Hooward at the Lahore Press Club on Tuesday. Foster is founder of the IJN and serves as the lead counsel in several cases on behalf of detainees picked up by the US army and law enforcement agencies, mostly on the charges of terrorism from Pakistain, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen. Her organisation is defending a number of significant al Qaeda suspects, including Fadi al Maqaleh from Yemen, Amin al Bakri from Yemen, Haji Wazir from Afghanistan, Redha al Najar from Tunisia, Jan Sher Khan and Amanatullah from Pakistain. Commenting on Dr Aafia's case in which she was sentenced to 86 years in prison by a US federal court three months ago, Foster said Aafia was innocent. She said she believed that Dr Aafia could never cause harm to anyone. The verdict was not only unjust to her, but it would cast a negative impact on her two children in Pakistain who might never see their mother again. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Oh, well excuuuuuuuse me! |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-12-22 16:43 |
| #1 Tough Titties! |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2010-12-22 00:37 |