SIDDIQUI, DR. AAFIA
POST 911 MUSLIM POLITICAL PRISONER
Contact Information
Prison Address
#90279-054--FMC Carswell
P.O. Box 27137
Fort Worth, TX 76127
United StatesBirthday: March 2, 1972
Captured: 2008. Sentence: 86 years.
IN PRISON 14 YEARS
"Her parents were Pakistani strivers – middle-class folk with strong faith in Islam and education. Her father, Mohammad, was an English-trained doctor; her mother, Ismet, befriended the dictator General Zia ul-Haq. Aafia was a smart teenager, and in 1990 followed her older brother to the U.S. Impressive grades won her admission to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, later, Brandeis University, where she graduated in cognitive neuroscience. In 1995 she married a young Karachi [Pakistan] doctor, Amjad Khan. A year later their first child, Ahmed, was born."
https://aafia.org
International Prisoner
Post 9-11 Muslim Political Prisoner