Aafia Siddiqui born in Karachi on March 2, 1972. She is an American educated Pakistani in the field of cognitive neuroscience, Dr. Aafia Siddiqi convicted after a jury trial in a U.S. federal court of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan.
The charges carried a maximum sentence of life in prison. In September 2010, she was sentenced by the U.S. judge to 86 years in prison.