"Aafia’s story is really a symbol of a broader problem which has gone largely unnoticed. There are hundreds if not thousands of people who have disappeared at the hands of the bush administration and we don’t know possibly under the Obama administration. And the captures have never been held to account," said Foster.

Amnesty international USA, based in Manhattan for decades, was staging noisy worldwide campaigns to free those they said were political prisoners, often as far as Burma or North Korea. But not in the case of Siddiqui, who was imprisoned and tried just down the street.

“We are very much sad, we never see Human Rights Watch, we never see Amnesty International, we never see ACLU,” said Comrade Shahid, a Siddiqui supporter.

Siddiqui supporter and founder of the International Action Committee, Sara Flounders, has continually criticized Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for blatantly turning away from a horrific problem here at home.

“Not to address US conduct where people are held under horrendous conditions. Tortured. Abused. Held in solitary confinement. The first obligation is to address the issues and conduct of your own government,” said Flounders.

Petra Borosevich is one of the few American journalists to report Siddiqui’s story.

“I think it is a case that really shows some of the fundamental problems in the way that we prosecute the war on terrorism, which is through secrecy and through measures that are not transparent. It does seem there was some foul play somewhere along the line but we may never know what really happened to her,” she said.

The alleged crimes against Siddiqui, however, have never been fully investigated.

“It’s been absolutely horrifying to see that Obama, who ran for president as the anti-Bush, and who was so adamantly opposed the perversion of the United States Constitution, to see him now be the continuation of all of these policies that he has adopted from the Bush administration has been absolutely outrageous,” said Foster.