In a sterile prison cell at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, sits a woman who has become one of the most controversial prisoners in America. Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a 53-year-old Pakistani neuroscientist, is serving an 86-year sentence, essentially a life term, for attempting to murder US soldiers in Afghanistan. She was convicted no…
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