Police attack Aafia demo in Karachi

[calybe]

Police have attacked demonstrators in Karachi demanding the release of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is imprisoned in the United States.

On Friday, police beat protesters with batons, used water cannons, and fired tear gas canisters to disperse people marching toward the U.S. Consulate in Karachi.

About a dozen activists, including the

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[chaya]

Please fix your html.

[calybe]

Done. Sorry about that!

[mephisto5]

Is there any info about what happened to her kids after they all vanished in 2003?

According to Wikipedia

[calybe]

Siddiqui has not explained clearly what happened to her two missing children. She alternated between saying that the two youngest children were dead, and that they were with her sister Fowzia, according to a psychiatric exam. She told one FBI agent that sometimes one has to take up a cause that is more important than one's children. Khan said he believed that the missing children were in Karachi, either with or in contact with Siddiqui's family, and not in U.S. detention. He said that they were seen in her sister's house in Karachi and in Islamabad on several occasions since their alleged disappearance in 2003.