TORTURED'S SENTENCE "BARBARIC"

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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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