“Victim of justice”: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui wants US presidential pardon before Biden turns over to Trump.

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, has requested a presidential pardon ahead of the US presidential election, describing her imprisonment as “a blatant miscarriage of justice”.

Siddiqui, who has been imprisoned in the United States for more than 14 years, expressed hope that she will be released after “new evidence” emerged that suggested her innocence, Sky News said.

She has maintained her innocence and believes “the tide may now be turning.”

“I hope I am not forgotten, and that one day soon I will be released,” she told the British TV channel via her lawyer.

“I am a victim of injustice, plain and simple.” Every day is torment… it’s not easy. One day, Inshallah (God willing), I will be free of this agony.”

In a 76,500-word report, her barrister, Clive Stafford Smith, begged outgoing US President Joe Biden to pardon her client.

Her lawyer says that a series of intelligence blunders led to her becoming a suspect, citing witness statements that were unavailable at the time of her trial.

He claims that Siddiqui was kidnapped with her three children while visiting Pakistan in 2003 and given over to the CIA, who transported her to Afghanistan’s Bagram air base.

At her trial in 2010, the judge ruled that “there is no credible evidence in the record that the US officials and/or agencies detained Siddiqui” prior to her 2008 arrest, adding that there is “no evidence in the record to substantiate these allegations or to establish them as fact”.

Her lawyer claimed that US intelligence “got the wrong end of the stick in the beginning” when they assumed Siddiqui was a nuclear physicist working on a radioactive device “when she really did her PhD in education”.