Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor is a citizen of

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who was held in

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in the

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...

s, in

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. His Guantanamo

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was 139. He was repatriated on November 11, 2003.

McClatchy News Service interview

On June 15, 2008, the

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published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.
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Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor was one of three former captives who had an article profiling him.
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Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor was a law student when he was interviewed by the ''

''. He acknowledged losing a finger during his stay in Afghanistan. He was held in

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's prison in

Sherberghan Sheberghān or Shaburghān ( Uzbek, Pashto, fa, شبرغان), also spelled ''Shebirghan'' and ''Shibarghan'', is the capital city of the Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan. The city of Sheberghan has a population of 175,599. It has four ...

. 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 Kandahar Central Jail, also known as Sarpuza Prison or Sarposa Prison, is a minimum security prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It has been historically used for the incarceration of common criminals of Kandahar Province. In the last two decades, the ...

. He said he was only interrogated once in Kandahar, before he was shipped to Guantanamo. He also said he personally witnessed

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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

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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:

References

External links

The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (7) – From Sheberghan to Kandahar
Andy Worthington
McClatchy News Service - video
{{DEFAULTSORT:Manzoor, Hafize Liqat Pakistani extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Living people Guantanamo detainees known to have been released Year of birth missing (living people)