Aafia Siddiqui (Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of multiple felonies. She is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. She is viewed by some in Pakistan as the “national symbol of honor and victimization” though other Pakistanis have called this “knee-jerk Pakistani nationalism”.