Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor
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Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor is a citizen of Pakistan
who was held in extrajudicial detention
in the United States
's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 139.
He was repatriated on 11 November 2003.
Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor
was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.
Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor was a law student when he was interviewed by the McClatchy News Service.
He acknowledged losing a finger during his stay in Afghanistan. He was held in General Dostum's prison in Sherberghan. Like many other captives he described being locked in a crowded shipping container where many captives suffocated, or died when Dostum's troops fired into the container to make air holes.
He spent three weeks at Sherberghan, before he was transferred to US custody at the Kandahar detention facility.
He said he was only interrogated once in Kandahar, before he was shipped to Guantanamo. He also said he personally witnessed Koran desecration there.
He said he only had a single interrogation in his first six months in Guantanamo.
He said he had acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan to engage in Jihad
.
His interrogations began again when interrogators informed him that another captive had claimed he was a senior Taliban commander.
He spent a year in detention in Pakistan after his repatriation.
He told his interviewer that his experiences in custody convinced him of the importance of the rule of law, and had convinced him he should attend law school:
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
who was held in extrajudicial detention
Extrajudicial detention
Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 139.
He was repatriated on 11 November 2003.
McClatchy News Service interview
On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor
was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.
Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor was a law student when he was interviewed by the McClatchy News Service.
He acknowledged losing a finger during his stay in Afghanistan. He was held in General Dostum's prison in Sherberghan. Like many other captives he described being locked in a crowded shipping container where many captives suffocated, or died when Dostum's troops fired into the container to make air holes.
He spent three weeks at Sherberghan, before he was transferred to US custody at the Kandahar detention facility.
He said he was only interrogated once in Kandahar, before he was shipped to Guantanamo. He also said he personally witnessed Koran desecration there.
He said he only had a single interrogation in his first six months in Guantanamo.
He said he had acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan to engage in Jihad
Jihad
Jihad , an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jihād translates as a noun meaning "struggle". Jihad appears 41 times in the Quran and frequently in the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of God ". A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid; the plural is...
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His interrogations began again when interrogators informed him that another captive had claimed he was a senior Taliban commander.
He spent a year in detention in Pakistan after his repatriation.
He told his interviewer that his experiences in custody convinced him of the importance of the rule of law, and had convinced him he should attend law school: