(Middle East Eye) Dozens of protesters stood outside Pakistan’s consulate in New York City on Wednesday, calling for the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who is currently serving 86 years in prison in what civil liberties groups and activists say was an unjust sentencing as a result of the US “war on terror.”
The demonstrators, who rallied in the same city where Siddiqui was convicted and sentenced more than 10 years ago, carried signs demanding she be repatriated to Pakistan, while chanting “Free our sister Aafia” and “[Aafia], Aafia, don’t cry, we won’t let your case die.”
“The Pakistani government needs to pressure the US government to send her back,” Anwaar Huk, an organiser of the rally, told Middle East Eye.
