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NEW YORK: The government is seeking new lawyers to represent US-trained Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who faces a possible life prison sentence for the attempted murder of US interrogators in Afghanistan. Aafia, 37, who the US government...
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NEW YORK: A Pakistani woman charged with trying to kill American interrogators in Afghanistan is fit to stand trial, a U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday after months of examination of her mental state. The U.S. government has accused Aafia Siddiqui, 37, a...
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A judge has found a U.S.-trained scientist accused of being an al-Qaida operative competent to stand trial. Judge Richard Berman made the ruling Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan. A trial for Aafia Siddiqui (AH'-fee-ah Sih-DEE'-key) is scheduled...
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On Wednesday, a US judge declared the US-educated Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who was extradited to the United States in August, was unfit for trial due to mental incompetence. Judge Richard Berman told the Federal court in New York that Siddiqui is "not currently...
Defense lawyers and prosecutors both dismissed the charges as ridiculous and argued the frail-looking Aafia Siddiqui is mentally unfit to stand trial and should undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Even an evaluation performed by a federal prison doctor...
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Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani woman suspected of links to Al Qaeda and charged with trying to kill American interrogators in Afghanistan, is mentally unfit to stand trial, according to her psychiatric evaluation. Aafia Siddiqui, 36, is not currently...
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Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Wednesday has expressed its concerns over the Dr Aafia Siddiquis missing children and conveyed these concerns to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Amjad Iqbal Qureshi while talking...
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Supreme Court gave a reprieve Tuesday to a condemned Georgia man, less than two hours before he was to be executed for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer. Supporters of 39-year-old Troy Davis have called for a new trial as seven of the nine...
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Afghan officials have handed over to Pakistan the son of a US-trained Pakistani academic with alleged links to al-Qaeda. Twelve-year old Mohammed Ahmed, son of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, has been handed over to the Pakistani embassy in Kabul. Dr Siddiqui, 36,...
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