'Pakistani woman detained at Bagram airbase'

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C07%5C07%5Cstory_7-7-200
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  <http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/images/2008/07/07/20080707_04.jpg> * British
journalist Yvonne Ridley says woman being held in solitary confinement for 4
years

By Muhammad Bilal

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani woman has spent the last four years, and remains to
this day, in solitary confinement at the United-States run Bagram airbase
detention facility in Afghanistan, British journalist and peace activist
Yvonne Ridley told reporters on Sunday. 

"Today I am crying out for help, not for myself but for a Pakistani woman
neither you nor I have ever met. She has been held in isolation by the
Americans in Afghanistan and she needs help," Ridley said. 

Ridley said she first learnt about the woman while reading a book by
Guantanamo ex-detainee Moazzam Begg. Ridley added that one of the four Arabs
who escaped from the Bagram cell in July 2005 also told a television channel
that he had heard a woman's cries and screams in the prison but never saw
her. "I call her the Grey Lady of Bagram because she is almost a ghost, a
spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her," she
said. 

The woman is registered as Prisoner number 650 and the US officials can't
deny the fact, Ridley said. "I demand that the US military free the Grey
Lady immediately. We don't know her identity, we don't know her state of
mind and we don't know the extent of the abuse or torture she has been
subjected to," Ridley said. 

This would never happen to a Western woman, she added. 

Taliban captured Ridley in September 2001 for entering Afghanistan without
legal documents. Ridley was freed after 11-day detention and later embraced
Islam in June 2003. Pakstan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan was also
present at the occasion. Khan demanded the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
government ask the US to provide details of the woman. 

The woman could be Dr Aafia Siddiqui who was picked from a Pakistani airport
few years back, Khan said, adding that keeping any one in illegal detention
was violation of human rights. 

The Foreign Office denied knowledge of the alleged detention of a Pakistani
woman, ARY TV reported. 

FO spokesman said the allegation would be looked into.

 
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