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2010-09-10 | |||||
[Iran Press] Pakistani female scientist Aafia Siddiqui, accused of shooting US service members, will receive her sentence at a New York court by the end of September.
Siddiqui is charged 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 is expected to be sentenced to life in prison. Human rights groups say that Siddiqui had secretly been transferred to the US base in Bagram, north of Kabul, and tortured for five years prior to the alleged 2008 incident.
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.
Relatives of Siddiqui have strongly criticized the US justice system for its ruling. Siddiqui vanished in Karachi, Pakistan with her three children on March 30, 2003. The following day it was reported in local newspapers that she had been taken into US custody on terrorism charges.
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