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September 23, 2010 10:42 p.m. EST
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Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) - A United States federal court on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to Pakistan’s neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui for trying to kill American officials in Afghanistan. The court found 38-year-old female scientist, who received training from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), guilty of attempting to kill American servicemen in February.
Reading his verdict in Thursday's hearing, Justice Richard Berman announced 86 years behind bars for Dr Siddiqui – an announcement vehemently condemned by Siddiqui's supporters who chanted, "Shame, shame on this court!"
However, Siddiqui urged her supporters to calmly respond to her sentence and urged them to forgive everyone, including the judge. But, her legal team insisted that they would lodge an appeal against the verdict. Talking to reporters after the hearing, her attorney Charles Swift said, "The important part is that an appeal go forward and that those errors be addressed, because there were a lot of errors in this case."
Prosecutors accused Siddiqui of targeting American servicemen in Afghanistan by grabbing a rifle at an Afghan police station in Ghazni where she was questioned in July 2008. They claimed that the mother of three, Siddiqui, opened fire with the rifle on FBI representatives and American servicemen when they tried to take her into detention. However, she missed the target but received shot injuries in the ambush.
Responding to these claims, defense lawyers said that the prosecution has no physical evidence like gunpowder traces or even fingerprint on the rifle to support their claim that Siddiqui even grabbed the rifle.
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