- Siddiqui says: “I am… the victim of pure and simple injustice.”
- “One day, Inshallah, I will be free from this torment,” she said.
- In a 76,500-word filing, his lawyer urges Biden to grant clemency.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist currently serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, requested a presidential pardon before the transfer of power to the United States, calling her sentence prison for “blatant miscarriage”. of justice.”
Siddiqui, who has languished in a US prison for more than 14 years, hoped she would be released after “new evidence” emerged that could suggest her innocence, News from the sky reported.
She has proclaimed her innocence and hopes that “the tide could now turn”.
“I hope that I will not be forgotten and I hope that one day soon I will be released,” she told the British news channel through her lawyer.
“I am… a victim of pure and simple injustice. Every day is torture… it’s not easy. One day, Inshallah (God willing), I will be free from this torment.”
In a 76,500-word filing, his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith urged outgoing US President Joe Biden to grant his client clemency.
Her lawyer says a series of intelligence errors led her to initially become suspicious, citing testimony that was not available at the time of her trial.
He claims that while Siddiqui was visiting Pakistan in 2003, she was kidnapped along with her three children and handed over to the CIA, who took her to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
At his 2010 trial, the judge said, “There is no credible evidence in the record that U.S. officials and/or agencies detained Siddiqui” before his 2008 arrest, adding that there is no “no evidence in the file to support these accusations.” allegations or to establish them as facts.”
Her lawyer opined that U.S. intelligence “caught itself on the wrong end of the stick at first” because the agencies believed Siddiqui was a nuclear physicist working on a radioactive bomb “when in fact she had done her Ph.D. in education.