February 3, 2010, New York, NY – The International Justice Network (IJNetwork) represents the family of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in the United States. Attorneys from IJNetwork have been monitoring her trial, which began on January 19, and ended with a guilty verdict today in U.S. Federal Court in the Southern District of New York.
"Today marks the close of another sad chapter in the life of our sister, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. Today she was unjustly found guilty. Though she was not charged with any terrorism-related offense, Judge Berman permitted the prosecution's witnesses to characterize our sister as a terrorist -- which, based on copious evidence, she clearly is not. Today's verdict is one of many legal errors that allowed the prosecution to build a case against our sister based on hate, rather than fact. We believe that as a result, she was denied a fair trial, and today's verdict must be overturned on appeal." |
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Redacted List of Bagram Detainees (pdf)
In response to a FOIA request by the ACLU, the Obama administration released a redacted list of people detained at the Bagram, Afghanistan US facility. |
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IJNetwork Press Release
On January 7, 2010 at 9:30a.m, a three-judge panel (Judges Sentelle, Tatel, and Edwards) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments in Maqaleh v. Gates (No. 09-5265), the first legal challenge in U.S. courts on behalf of prisoners detained at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.
The case is brought by IJNetwork on behalf of two Yemenis and one Tunisian citizen, each seized outside of Afghanistan from third countries and held without charge or trial in U.S. custody for more than six years.
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IJNetwork leads human rights initiatives to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law.
IJN filed the first cases on behalf of people imprisoned in the treacherous Bagram Internment Facility. 