Restrictive Terms of Prisoner’s Confinement Add Fuel to Debate
By KAREEM FAHIM
Published: February 4, 2009
Charged with providing support to Al Qaeda, Syed Hashmi, a 28-year-old Queens man, has been held in solitary confinement for 15 months in a federal prison in Manhattan.
Syed Hashmi, a Pakistani immigrant who grew up in Queens, has awaited trial [...]
One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists
AP / Mary Altaffer
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan [...]
Two Standards of Detention
By Amy Goodman
Source: Truthout
Scott Roeder, the anti-abortion zealot charged with killing Dr. George Tiller, has been busy. He called the Associated Press from the Sedgwick County Jail in Kansas, saying, “I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal.” Charged with first-degree murder [...]
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty on Seven Counts
February 3, 2010
Today a 12 member jury found Dr. Aafia guilty on seven different counts including attempted murder, armed assault, using and carrying a firearm, and assault of U.S. officers and employees. The government alleges that she fired an “unattended” M4 Rifle that was left leaning up [...]
SHOCK, HORROR, DRAMA: New York media miss shock, horror, drama …
By Yvonne Ridley in New York
Dr Aafia Siddiqui is a bright, intelligent woman who has been through hell having being kidnapped, tortured in secret prisons, gunned down by US soldiers and renditioned to America where she is now facing attempted murder charges against those who [...]
The Powerful Testimony of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
Aafia Siddiqui – a daughter, a sister, a mother of three, committed Muslim, social scientist, hafiz of Qur’an – needed to be heard. For years she had suffered in virtual silence…aching to be heard, to be understood, to have certain malicious untruths corrected and exposed for the lies they [...]
