Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor Explained

Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor
Id Number:139
Charge:No charge (held in extrajudicial detention)
Status:Repatriated on 11 November 2003

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.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 139.

He was repatriated on November 11, 2003.[2]

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.[3] Hafiz Liaqat Manzoorwas one of three former captives who had an article profiling him.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor was a law student when he was interviewed by the McClatchy News Service.[9] 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.[9] 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.[9] 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.[9]

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:[9]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. 2006-05-15.
  2. News: Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased . . OARDEC . OARDEC . 2008-10-09 . 2008-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081220004442/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf . 2008-12-20.
  3. News: Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 3 . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 15, 2008 . 2008-06-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090304175010/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/ . March 4, 2009. mirror
  4. News: U.S. hasn't apologized to or compensated ex-detainees . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 18, 2008 . 2008-06-18 . dead . https://archive.today/20080619010921/http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/611/story/491372.html . June 19, 2008.
  5. News: Pentagon declined to answer questions about detainees . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 15, 2008 . 2008-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080615214204/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38771.html . June 15, 2008.
  6. News: Documents undercut Pentagon's denial of routine abuse . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 16, 2008 . 2008-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080619001329/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38776.html . June 19, 2008.
  7. News: Deck stacked against detainees in legal proceedings . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 19, 2008 . 2008-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080620122327/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38887.html . June 20, 2008.
  8. News: U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 16, 2008 . 2008-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080620001639/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/38775.html . June 20, 2008.
  9. News: Guantanamo Inmate Database: Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor . . Tom Lasseter . Tom Lasseter . June 15, 2008 . 2008-06-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080920043148/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/16 . September 20, 2008. mirror

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