Sister rejects psychiatric evaluation orders of Aafia

KARACHI - Dr Fouzia Siddiqui, sister of detained Dr Aafia Siddiqui, has thanked government of Pakistan for all its cooperation through resolutions and statements in support of her illegally incarcerated sister in United States. She said that the best treatment that her sister should get was to be repatriated to Pakistan immediately.
Speaking at a Press conference at Karachi Press Club here on Monday, flanked by Secretary General HRCP, Iqbal Haider, she said that Dr Aafia’s salvation laid not in locking her in a psychiatric institute putting her through dehumanising searches, chaining her to beds, floor hooks or walls but instead sending her home to Pakistan where she would be reunited with her family and in familiar surrounding nurturing her mental rehabilitation by providing medication and most of all the motherly love and affection that she is striving for.
“The best treatment and ointment for Dr Aafia wounds after over five years of physically, mental and emotional abuse, torture and brain washing was sending her home immediately where she will receive family’s trust, love, affection and sense of security that she had been deprived of since long,” she underlined.
She said that Judge Berman’s ruling in Dr Aafia’s hearing on Oct 1, 2008, was shocking. He ordered the transfer of Aafia to a Psychiatric Centre in Texas for psychiatric evaluation along with the use of force order. “Her transfer to this notorious horror centre means even worse abuse and solitary incarceration for an unlimited period without further due process and without further trail,” she feared.