Dr. Aafia Siddiqui , a Pakistani neuroscientist jailed in the United States for over decade, her lawyer Clive Stafford Smith revealed that “Dr Aafia was sexually assaulted at Bagram as an interrogation tactic”
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui ‘s lawyer Clive Stafford Smith revealed that her client imprisoned on US prison has been sexually assaulted at least twice.
According to the details, it was revealed by Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyer , Clive Stafford stated that the government of Pakistan is aware of the incidents of sexual assault on Dr. Aafia.
While talking to a private news channel, smith said that Dr. Aafia told him about the sexual assault after which a complaint was filed.
The lawyer added that Dr. Aafia was sexually assaulted in Bagram prison as well as an interrogation tactic.
According to lawyer Clive Stafford Smith she has been abused and tortured on a daily basis.
who is Dr Aafia Siddiqui?
A US-educated Pakistani scientist, Dr Aafia Siddiqui was jailed in 2010 for 86 years by a New York federal district court in September 2008 on charges of attempted murder and assault, stemming from an incident during an interview with the US authorities in Ghazni, Afghanistan — charges that she denied.
She was the first woman to be suspected of Al-Qaeda links by the US, but never convicted of it.
At 18 years old Siddiqui travelled to the US, where her brother lived, to study at Boston’s prestigious MIT, later earning a PhD in neuroscience at Brandeis University.
But after the 9/11 terror attacks of 2001, she came up on the FBI’s radar for donations to Islamic organizations and was linked to the purchase of $10,000 worth of night-vision glasses and books on warfare.
The US suspected she joined Al-Qaeda from America, returning to Pakistan where she married into the family of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — an architect of the 9/11 attacks.
She disappeared in around 2003, along with her three children, in Karachi.
Five years later she turned up in Pakistan’s war-torn neighbour Afghanistan, where she was arrested by local forces in the restive southeastern province of Ghazni
