Dr Fauzia Siddiqui’s meeting with Dr Aafia was interrupted.
The meeting could not be held because the phone was broken
KARACHI ( Web News )
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who is imprisoned in the American jail, has been met by her sister, Dr. Fawzia Siddiqui, but the conversation could not take place due to the phone being broken. According to the press release of Aafia Movement, the phone was broken yesterday. Due to the lack of discussion in the meeting with Dr. Aafia, American lawyer Clive Stafford Smith sent an urgent message to the warden of FMC Carswell Jail because Dr. Fauzia Siddiqui is scheduled to meet her sister in the morning. Clive Smith has inquired in a letter to the prison warden, “Could you please fix the communication phone in the legal meeting room in Adminsig immediately?” I commend your Councilor T. Murphy for being a model of courtesy and efficiency on this tour, but the tour has been poor so far. Aafia’s sister Dr Fauzia Siddiqui is coming from Pakistan today at 9 am for a social visit and it is impossible to talk in the visiting room as the phone is broken. Yesterday when I reached there for a legal appointment the phone was not working. Officer Murphy called Officer Martin to fix it. It came but he didn’t have the right screwdriver to remove the security screws. This was an extremely simple problem, as all it required was a phone, a 12-inch cable, and another phone—Alexander Graham Bell found such a thing to work in 1876. Listening to anything spoken aloud through a glass. It was very difficult. Aafia could not hear me at all because she has hearing problems. I could probably pick up every third word because I just let him talk. That meant I basically didn’t do anything I had planned to go with it. Councilor Murphy said he hoped it would be over by the time he got there at 9am this morning with co-counselor Maria Kari. Will be fine. But Officer Martin was not, and never came all day today. Thus we had a 4 hour meeting where again communication was very difficult. We had little success, and really only stayed because leaving immediately would hurt our relationship with the client. Please could you contact Officer Martin or someone there immediately tomorrow morning at 9am. Can be fixed.