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Unidentified Pak woman detained at Bagram airbase for more than four years

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani woman, illegally detained by the American military at Afghanistan's Bagram airbase for last four years, has lost her mental balance. She had been held in solitary confinement at the US-run Bagram airbase detention facility in Afghanista, British journalist Yvonne Ridley who spent 11 days at the detention facility in 2001, has revealed.

Islamabad, July 7 : An unidentified Pakistani woman has been held in solitary confinement at the US-run Bagram airbase detention facility in Afghanistan for more than four years, British journalist Yvonne Ridley who spent 11 days at the detention facility in 2001, has revealed.

The woman is registered as 'Prisoner Number 650' at the detention centre and the US officials can't deny the fact, Ridley said and added: "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."

"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," the Daily Times quoted Ridley as saying.

Ridley said she first learnt about the woman while reading a book by Guantanamo ex-detainee Moazzam Begg, and added that one of the four Arabs who escaped from the Bagram cell in July 2005 also told a TV 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.

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

Taliban had captured Ridley in September 2001 for entering Afghanistan without legal documents. She was freed after 11-day detention and later embraced Islam in June 2003.

The paper quoted Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan as saying that the woman could be Dr Aafia Siddiqui (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui) who was picked from a Pakistani airport few years back. He added that keeping any one in illegal detention was "violation of human rights".


Pak woman prisoner in Bagram US detention centre

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani woman, illegally detained by the American military at Afghanistan's Bagram airbase for last four years, has lost her mental balance.

A British woman journalist Yvonne Ridley addressing a press conference along with Tehrik-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan here, said no details have been available about the prisoner number 650, incarcerated at the US base in Afghanistan.

She said according to the human rights organizations the imprisoned woman is a Pakistan national, which has been illegally detained at the American prison.

The foreign office spokesman in a clarification expressed ignorance about presence of a Pakistani woman prisoner at US interrogation centre at Bagram. He said the government of Pakistan will inquire into the matter on the basis of the report.

He said the issue will be raised with the concerned authorities. The government will provide all possible assistance to her after confirmation of the report, he added.


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