Sister of AafiaSiddiqui and leader of Aafia Movement Pakistan DrFowziaSiddiquihas filed a constitutional petition in Sindh High Court (SHC), praying to direct the government of Pakistan to seek urgent release of DrAafiaSiddiqui from a US prison on medical grounds.
In her petition filed through Advocate Irfan Aziz, making the federation of Pakistan through Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Principal Secretary Prime Minister House; Ministries of Interior Affairs and Human Rights through their respective secretaries; and Consul General of US Counsulate at Karachi respondents, DrFowziaSiddiqui maintained that a US Court illegally, unlawfully tried the case of DrAafiaSiddiqui because Aafia was a Pakistani citizen and she was handed over to USA without any jurisdiction, forcibly and without giving her fair opportunity of trial, and later she was intentionally convictedfor 86 years in prison without any justification and lawful reasons. The petitioner said she ran against these atrocities from pillar to post to create as tired on every available forum to seek freedom of DrAafia who is detained in Prison called FMC Carswell, Fort Worth Texas in USA.
She said that the USA distorted all the norms and international charters in case of Aafia, who is currently kept in horrific conditions in their Federal prison, where vindictive guards and administrators miss no opportunity to harass and humiliate her, often using her religious convictions as a convenient target.
Even when she was allowed to visit a family member, the harsh strip searches employed makes any visitor feel like a party to a forced rape. The counselor report from the counsel general of Pakistan 2019 is testament to this. She has no contact with her family for over 3 years now, whereas the prison manual allows phone call, video calls and visitation but Aafia is denied all basic rights.
