Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [8] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist [9] and educator who gained international attention following her conviction in the United States and is currently serving an 86-year sentence for attempted murder and other felonies at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, ...

In the summer of 2008, following disclosure that a Pakistani woman was being secretly held prisoner at the Bagram Detention Center in Afghanistan, Dr. Siddiqui was released from captivity in a weakened and disheveled state; reunited with her son (Ahmed), and then set up to be killed.

Sep 23, 2010 · Aafia Siddiqui, the female Pakistani scientist convicted of attempting to kill US military personnel, has been sentenced to 86 years in prison. Siddiqui was...

Jan 16, 2022 · The woman whose freedom was sought, Aafia Siddiqui, is serving an 86-year prison sentence after being convicted in Manhattan in 2010 on charges that she sought to shoot U.S. military officers while being detained in Afghanistan two years earlier.

Jan 18, 2025 · The CIA accused Dr Siddiqui of operating for al Qaeda in Afghanistan - and she was the only woman who went through its full extraordinary rendition to torture programme in the early 2000s, Mr ...

Jan 17, 2022 · Aafia Siddiqui, whose release was demanded by a man who took hostages inside a Texas synagogue, would not condone the man's actions, her attorney said Saturday.

Aafia Siddiqui is an MIT-educated Pakistani neuroscientist. Her alleged links to Al Qaeda led to her disappearing for several years before she was eventually caught and convicted, in a New York courtroom, of attempted murder.

Jun 1, 2023 · A US-educated Pakistani scientist, Dr Aafia Siddiqui was jailed 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.

Oct 11, 2021 · On September 23, 2010 in a New York City courtroom, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in prison by Judge Richard M. Berman for the attempted murder and assault of U.S. Army and FBI personnel in Afghanistan.

May 31, 2023 · After waiting for 20 years, Dr Fauzia Siddiqui finally met her elder sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui — a Pakistani neuroscientist jailed in the United States for over a decade — at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Texas, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan said on Wednesday.