{"id":894,"date":"2010-09-24T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2010-09-24T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T18:02:28","slug":"aafia-siddiqui-a-u-s-trained-pakistani-scientist-gets-86-years-in-prison-on-assault-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist, gets 86 years in prison on questionable assault conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist who was convicted of charges that she tried to kill Americans while detained in Afghanistan in 2008, was sentenced Thursday to 86 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Aafia Siddiqui&#8217;s sentence was handed down by a federal New York court.<\/p>\n<p>The case, barely covered in the United States, has been closely watched in Pakistan, where for months people have been demonstrating and calling for her release.<\/p>\n<p>The following video is reported by Kristen Saloomey and produced by Laila Al-Arian for Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"410\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7TNCxMkkOow\" ><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src  =\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7TNCxMkkOow\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can see my previous post (explaining why the charges are highly questionable) on Siddiqui <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/2009\/10\/22\/disappeared-pakistani-woman-to-go-on-trial-in-new-york\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist who was convicted of charges that she tried to kill Americans while detained in Afghanistan in 2008, was sentenced Thursday to 86 years in prison. Aafia Siddiqui&#8217;s sentence was handed down by a federal New York court. The case, barely covered in the United States, has been closely watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,164],"tags":[157,26,162,43],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-war-on-terror","tag-afghanistan","tag-al-qaida","tag-pakistan","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}