'In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful'
Asalamo Alykum !
The name of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui needs no introduction. It is a name that has reverberated newspapers, political forums and human rights organizations since twenty years. Amidst, some might remember just the name and may have forgotten the case.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani Muslim neuroscientist, who was abducted from outside her home along with her three children from Karachi, Pakistan on 30th March 2003, for reasons yet to be understood. She was secretly kept in Bagram Jail, Afghanistan, which is a men’s only jail. She was discovered by British journalist Yvonne Ridley in 2008, who did a press conference about her along with Imran Khan in Pakistan. Upon discovery, there was an attempt to kill her and her son in a fake police encounter, which luckily she survived. There was a second attempt to shoot her, in which she got the bullet but did not die. She was then immediately shifted to FMC Carswell Jail in Texas, USA. Further, she was sentenced to 86 years of imprisonment in 2010 for an attempt to shoot while in captivity herself. She has been in solitary confinement since. During all these times, she has been subjected to physical, mental, religious, emotional and sexual torture of the worst kind. She has lost her front teeth and her face is burnt now !
Ironically, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has NEVER been convicted for terrorism charges although she was picked up on the pretext of post 9/11 searches. The 20th alleged attacker of the 9/11 attack, Mohammad Mani A. Al’Qahtani, has been sent home from Guantanamo Bay jail to Saudi Arabia to get psychiatric treatment. Then why not Aafia who has never been involved in any kind of crime ?
How can humanity stay silent upon a case of such gross injustice ? It is difficult to speak about it, let alone imagine what Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her children have gone through all these years. How can we sit in our majestic offices, rap the table and speak of human rights ? How can we be insensitive to any human like this ? Be we Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims … are the Jews not answerable to God ? Are the Christians not answerable to Jesus ? Are the Hindus not answerable to Bhagwan ? Are the Muslims not answerable to Allah ? Let us suppose we are none of these and are but atheists. Do not atheists believe in a humanitarian sense of justice and mercy ?
History is being written as we walk through our lives. We are either being written on the right side of history or the wrong side of history. We might even be written down as the ones sitting on the fence. But a hundred years from now, people will surely read about us and be ashamed of us or proud of us. As proud as Brandies University, MIT and Professor Noam Chomsky are of their great and outstanding student, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
As a human, I appeal to you to speak for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s freedom this UNGA 2023. She was sentenced to imprisonment on 23rd September 2010. Let 23rd September 2023 be her freedom day. Please coordinate with Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui, Senator Mushtaq Ahmed and Attorney Clive Smith for the great day. God bless you … Amen !
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