Aafias sentence details made public

A detailed verdict, comprising 111 pages, on Dr Aafia Siddiquis sentencing by a US court has been released on Sunday, Dunya News reported. Experts said the detailed judgment has reviewed, from all aspects, the courts proceedings, leading to sentencing Dr Aafia Siddiqui 86 years in imprisonment. Last February a jury found Dr Siddiqui guilty of seven charges, including two counts of attempted murder. The jury found there wasnt premeditation in the attempted murder charges. After the judge announced the sentence, Dr Siddiqui turned to the audience and urged the public to forgive the persons involved in the case and not to take any revenge action. Prosecutors had alleged that Dr Siddiqui, unbeknownst to some Americans who travelled to Ghazni, was behind a curtain in the second-floor room where they gathered. She burst from behind the curtain, grabbed an American soldiers rifle and started firing. She was shot in the abdomen by a soldier who returned fire with his sidearm, the prosecutors said. Dr Siddiqui, who received her graduation degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University in biology and neuroscience while living in the US between 1991 and June 2002, denied grabbing the weapon or having any familiarity with firearms.During the trial, she testified that she was simply trying to escape the room and was shot by someone who had seen her. She claimed she was concerned at the time about being transferred to a secret prison.