Pakistani lawmakers have passed a resolution in parliament urging the government to pressure the United States to immediately release Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently in prison in the US.
On Monday, parliamentarians from the ruling party and opposition benches in the Pakistani Senate, which is the upper house of parliament, adopted a resolution expressing grave concern over the US court conviction of Dr. Siddiqui last month, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday.
A jury in the United States found Aafia Siddiqui guilty on charges of shooting at FBI agents and US military personnel in a police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she was being interrogated in 2008.
She was convicted in a New York court on February 3, 2010 and could face life in prison when sentenced on May 6.
The Pakistani MPs passed the resolution one day after thousands of people held an anti-US demonstration in Islamabad in which they called for the release of Dr. Siddiqui.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119261§ionid=351020401.
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