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Fact vs Fiction: The Case of Dr. ‘Aafia Siddiqui
Mar18
The Muslim Justice Initiative presents:
FACT vs. FICTION
THE CASE OF DR. AAFIA SIDDIQUI
:: * W O R L D W I D E * W e b i n a r ::
(Friday, 4/2/10 8:00 pm EST)
INCLUDING MESSAGES FROM:
INCLUDING MESSAGES FROM:
MOHAMMED SIDDIQUI
(Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s brother)
FAWZIA SIDDIQUI
FAWZIA SIDDIQUI
(Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s Sister)
YVONNE RIDLEY
YVONNE RIDLEY
(Renowned British Journalist)
TINA FOSTER
(Executive Director of the International Justice Network)
Online at http://muslimsforjustice.org/aafia.html
*This is an online event. The webinar can be accessed internationally via net and phone*
The recent guilty verdict in the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has shocked and outraged masses across the globe. This controversial and complex case of Dr. Siddiqui has left several people with unanswered questions. Come and attend our webinar and hear from the family members of Dr. Aafia Siddqui, international journalist Yvonne Ridley, and other supporters. Log-on and listen to eye-witness accounts of Dr. Siddiqui’s three-week trial, which was held in New York City. Join our online webinar on Friday April 2, 2010 at
8pm (EST) and learn what you can do to protect yourselves and how you can
help!
8pm (EST) and learn what you can do to protect yourselves and how you can
help!
Log on to: http://muslimsforjustice.org/aafia.html on Friday 4.2.10 @ 8 PM
Today Dr. ‘Aafia Siddiqui, Tomorrow Another Believer
Mar16
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficient, Most Merciful
as-Salaamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakatuhu
Global Voice for Justice is holding an event for Dr ‘Aafia Siddiqui in Sydney. Her case is very saddening as injustice and oppression is continually being enforced upon our sister. She has been tortured for many years in Bagram – some reports even mention that she has been raped. In addition, it has been confirmed by many reliable reports that after her arrest in 2003, two of her children are still missing until today. After all the oppression and mistreatment that our sister endured for all those 7 years, this only continues as in early February the Judge and the jury of the court felt no remorse for what the American and Pakistani authorities put her through. Today, ‘Aafia faces a life sentence after a guilty verdict was handed down by the jury on the third of February 2010.
It is a duty upon every Muslim to stand against oppression and help those in need.
“Once the cell door was locked, I entered another world. Exhaustion, fatigue, starvation and pain had left deep marks on both my soul and body. The psychological abuse I had suffered was becoming almost as intolerable and unbearable as their physical perversions. Like a fire raging uncontrollably, my every move seemed to add fuel to the devastation already reaped by others…” Zainab al-Ghazali
We were not there for our dear sister Zainab al-Ghazali but we can be the voice of ‘Aafia Siddiqui and many other nameless women who continue to be victims of savagery and inhuman persecution, so let us not neglect our duty towards our dear sisters.
O’ to the one who hears our letter … we are the prisoners…we will stand against you all before Allah on the Day of Judgement and we will say to Him … ‘These people, they knew the orders of your Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam regarding freeing the prisoners, but they did not oblige nor did they take all the courses of action that could lead to our freedom.’
Please see flyer for event details.
http://justiceforaafia.org/
australia@justiceforaafia.org
Justice for Aafia Coalition (JFAC)
Mar7
Global Voice for Justice is one of the core members of JFAC – please support this new campaign for Aafia Siddiqui:
Sunday 28 March 2010 is the 7th anniversary of the kidnapping of Aafia Siddiqui and her children. To commemorate this, the Justice for Aafia Coalition (JFAC) has been formed – an umbrella organisation, currently spanning four continents, which aims to unite and direct all individuals and organisations concerned for our sister and working for her release.
We all should be aware of the plight of our sister Aafia Siddiqui who last month was convicted of the attempted murder of US soldiers in Afghanistan whilst in custody. The hidden side of this story is the fact that Aafia had been missing since 2003 and claims that she was kidnapped with her three children by the Pakistani intelligence services, transferred to US custody and held in a series of secret prisons away from her children for five years during which time she was repeatedly raped, tortured and abused. Two of her children remain missing to this day. Aafia’s trial was also flawed in that there was no evidence of any gun residue from the rifle she is alleged to have shot, no trace of her fingerprints on the rifle, no bullet shells found in the room or bullet holes in the wall. The testimonies of the soldiers conflicted with each other and with their own earlier statements. Despite the prosecution admitting Aafia was not a member of al-Qaeda or linked to any terrorist group, she was for all intents and purposes, tried as such. Her sentencing is on 6 May – she faces spending the rest of her life in an American maximum security prison. Since her conviction, she has been denied access to phone calls, sending or receiving letters, or any visits, in the interests of ‘national security.’
AAFIA SIDDIQUI DAY
Sunday 28 March 2010 is the 7th anniversary of the kidnapping of Aafia and her children. To commemorate this and to highlight Aafia’s case as symbolic of the brutality of the ‘war on terror’ with the aim of having her repatriated to Pakistan and launching an investigation into the whereabouts of her missing children, the Justice for Aafia Coalition (JFAC – www.justiceforaafia.org) has been formed – an umbrella organisation, currently spanning four continents, which aims to unite and direct all individuals and organisations concerned for our sister and working for her release In an international day of protest, we aim to have events, demonstrations, letter-writing campaigns, khutbahs, etc in towns and cities all over the world in solidarity with Aafia on the one day – 28 March.
All it takes is for each person to do the following:
a) Organise an event (or screening) in your locality; rather than asking us to supply speakers, people could spend one hour reading up on her case thoroughly and presenting it to his community. JFAC will aim to provide you with the necessary information pack to deliver a presentation. If people educate themselves on the case and do the talk themselves, it is more empowering than just having an external speaker come. If you are interested in organising an event or hosting a related documentary screening, please email events@justiceforaafia.org. All events will be publicised on our website.
b) Attend the Aafia Siddiqui Solidarity March, from the Pakistani embassy to the US embassy, in London on Sunday March 28th, 2pm. Promote this and for those living outside London, organise coaches to bring people down.
c) Get 20 people from your community to send a letter to both your local paper and a national paper in the week beginning 22 March. The letters should be short, to the point and mention Aafia Siddiqui Day, the kidnapping and detention, missing children and the event. The individual must collect the letters, buy the postage and envelopes and post the letters. You have 20 days from today to get 19 letters (excluding the one you send yourself).
d) Get 20 people (doesn’t have to be the same 20) to send a letter to Aafia that day , from children in particular. Even though she is currently being denied mail, if the volume is enough, they may just let a few through.
e) An information leaflet, campaign pack and other resources will be shortly available, along with translations of the campaign materials into as many languages as we can. The aim is that anyone in the world can then just print off their particular language and distribute, thereby empowering them and decreasing dependency.
f) Approach your local mosque or Islamic Society to dedicate their khutbah on Friday 26 March to the case of Aafia Sddiqui. A khutbah template will soon be available for download.
There are many other projects in development and events are confirmed for UK, USA, Pakistan, Canada, Ireland, and Australia.
If you would like to assist us in the campaign please email info@justiceforaafia.org.
Justice for Aafia Coalition (JFAC)
www.justiceforaafia.org
FBI Entrapment: Personal Stories of Preemptive Prosecution
Mar7
The Fort Dix Five.
Yassin Aref.
Dr. Rafil Dhafir.
The Newburgh Four.
“Homegrown terrorists” stopped dead in their tracks, or victims of FBI entrapment? A panel of speakers will discuss these cases in light of the FBI’s campaign since 9/11 that includes preemptive prosecution, the targeting of Muslim communities and the use of agent provocateurs and informants to entrap innocent people.
Panelists include:
El-Hajj Mauri’ Saalakhan, Director of Operations for The Peace and Justice Foundation – a Muslim led grassroots human rights organization based in Metropolitan Washington, DC, and lead convener for the May 6, 2010, mass mobilization for political prisoner, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
Alicia Mc Williams, aunt of David Williams, one of the Newburgh Four, the men charged with the attempted bombing of the Riverdale Temple.
Faisal Hashmi, brother of Fahad Hashmi, who has been in pre-trial solitary confinement for over two years under the charges of providing material aid to Al-Qaeda.
Lynne Jackson, founder and director of Project Salam, an organization devoted to researching and documenting the United States Justice Department’s post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecutions and convictions to determine whether, in each case, there was substantial evidence of criminality or simply evidence unfairly concocted and/or twisted to convict innocent Muslims.
Sponsored by: National Lawyers Guild (NLG), Middle Eastern Law Students Association (MELSA), Islamic Law Students Association (ILSA), Law Students for Human Rights (LSHR), WESPAC
