******Press release & ACTION ALERT****** Calls to repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqui on International Human Rights Day Wednesday 10th December 2014 at 1pm Friends of Dr Aafia Siddiqui On International Human Rights Day on Wednesday 10th December 2014 at 1pm, there will be a meeting at the Pakistani Consulate in Manchester to highlight the plight of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman scientist. Friends of Dr Aafia Siddiqi state that her family has had no contact with Aafia for more than 9 months, and have no ways of knowing if she is alive or if alive in what mental state she is now. Dr Aafia Siddiqui has been imprisoned in the US since 2008 after five years of secret imprisonment overseas. Article 36 of the Vienna Convention clearly gives the Pakistani Consulate full access to Dr Aafia’s wellbeing. The friends of Aafia Siddiqui are calling the Pakistani Consulate to do the following: 1. To allow an independent medical team into FMC Carswell prison, Texas, US, to conduct a full examination of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. The evaluation team should include her sister, Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui, a practicing physician in Karachi, Pakistan. 2. To engage in serious discussions on the repatriation of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to her home country Pakistan, to allow her to serve out the remainder of her sentence there, under the appropriate international law. 3. Until such time as repatriation takes place, to insure that Dr. Siddiqui’s human rights are respected by both U.S. and international law. Dr Aafia Siddiqui has a fundamental right to life without discrimination under the constitution of Pakistan, USA and international conventions. She is entitled to humane treatment and deserves to have her civil and human rights observed, irrespective of the charges placed on her This year’s slogan, Human Rights 365, encompasses the idea that every day is Human Rights Day. It celebrates the fundamental proposition in the Universal Declaration that each one of us, everywhere, and at all times is entitled to the full range of human rights, which us together. Thank you in advance.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:12:16 +0000
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