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All Brothers & Sisters are requested to attend

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We all should be aware of the plight of our sister Aafia Siddiqui who last month was convicted
of the attempted murder of US soldiers in Afghanistan whilst in custody. The hidden side of this
story is the fact that Aafia had been missing since 2003 and claims that she was kidnapped with
her three children by the Pakistani intelligence services, transferred to US custody and held in a
series of secret prisons away from her children for five years during which time she was
repeatedly raped, tortured and abused. Two of her children remain missing to this day.

Aafia's trial was also flawed in that there was no evidence of any gun residue from the rifle she is
alleged to have shot, no trace of her fingerprints on the rifle, no bullet shells found in the room or
bullet holes in the wall. The testimonies of the soldiers conflicted with each other and with their
own earlier statements. Despite the prosecution admitting Aafia was not a member of al-Qaeda
or linked to any terrorist group, she was for all intents and purposes, tried as such. Her
sentencing is on 6 May - she faces spending the rest of her life in an American maximum
security prison. Since her conviction, she has been denied access to phone calls, sending or
receiving letters, or any visits, in the interests of `national security.'

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Sunday 28 March 2010 is the 7th anniversary of the kidnapping of Aafia and her children. To
commemorate this and to highlight Aafia's case as symbolic of the brutality of the 'war on terror'
with the aim of having her repatriated to Pakistan and launching an investigation into the
whereabouts of her missing children, the Justice for Aafia Coalition (JFAC - www.justiceforaafia
.org) has been formed - an umbrella organisation, currently spanning four continents, which aims
to unite and direct all individuals and organisations concerned for our sister and working for her
release In an international day of protest, we aim to have events, demonstrations, letter-writing
campaigns, khutbahs, etc in towns and cities all over the world in solidarity with Aafia.

All it takes is for each person to do the following:

a) Attend the Aafia Siddiqui Solidarity March, from the Pakistani embassy to the US embassy, in
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b) Get 20 people from your community to send a letter to both your local paper and a national
paper in the week beginning 22 March. The letters should be short, to the point and mention
Aafia Siddiqui Day, the kidnapping and detention, missing children and the event. The individual
must collect the letters, buy the postage and envelopes and post the letters. You have 20 days
from today to get 19 letters (excluding the one you send yourself).

c) Get 20 people to send a letter to Aafia that day, from children in particular. Even though she is
currently being denied mail, if the volume is enough, they may just let a few through.

For More Information please see the following links:

Open Letter in Support of Aafia Siddiqui Day - Shaykh Haitham Al-Haddad

Justice For Aafia Coalition

Youtube Video about the case (part 1) - from Democracy Now (4/2/10)
Youtube Video about the case (part 2) - from Democracy Now (4/2/10)

Yotube Video Imran Khan/Yvonne Ridley (part 1)

Yotube Video Imran Khan/Yvonne Ridley (part 2)
Yotube Video Imran Khan/Yvonne Ridley (part 3)

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We have now opened a facebook account: http://www.facebook .com/#!/profile.

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