WASHINGTON: Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui may have to spend her entire life in prison and that may still not be enough to complete mandatory sentences she faces on the charges she was found guilty of earlier this week, says the US Department of Justice.
A press release issued by the department in Washington says that Dr Aafia, 37, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each of the attempted murder and armed assault charges; life imprisonment on the firearm charge; and eight years in prison on each of the remaining assault charges. She also faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years in prison on the firearm charge.
She is scheduled to be sentenced on May 6.
On Wednesday, a court in Manhattan, New York, found her guilty on charges related to the attempted murder and assault of US nationals and US officers and employees in Afghanistan.
She was found guilty of all charges against her following a 14-day jury trial before United States District Judge Richard M. Berman in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
In a case marked by controversy and courtroom disruptions, after three days of deliberation the jury rejected Dr Aafia’s claims that she did not attempt to shoot and kill American interrogators at an Afghan police compound on July 18, 2008.
“The family is trying to deal with this news, and they unfortunately have been subjected to a lot of bad news in the last six years,” Tina Foster, Dr Aafia’s family spokeswoman and a human rights lawyer for the New York-based International Justice Network, told reporters.
Her unknown whereabouts between 2003 and 2008 has been the subject of much debate among human rights organisations and US government officials. The government claims Dr Aafia was linked to Al Qaeda, while human rights organisations claim she was detained and tortured in US-backed secret prisons.
Prosecutors said she was taken into custody at an Afghan police station in the city of Ghazni on July 17, 2008, on suspicion of being a suicide bomber after Afghan officials caught her with paperwork mentioning ‘cells’ and a ‘mass casualty attack’.
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