TORTURED'S SENTENCE "BARBARIC"

After suffering years of torture in US custody, and despite pleas from the Pakistani government for her release, neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is sentenced, prompting outrage in her native country.

A courtroom sketch of Aafia Siddiqui with Judge Richard Berman in New York.
A courtroom sketch of Aafia Siddiqui with Judge Richard Berman in New York. Photograph: Shirley Shepard/AFP/Getty Images

eyewitness accounts... serve to demonstrate that, not only is an 86-year sentence the most abominable miscarriage of justice, but also that it meshes perfectly with the notion that this whole sad story is an enormous cover-up. - Andy Worthington

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