Hafiz Ihsan Saeed
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Hafiz Ihsan Saeed is a citizen of Pakistan
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 in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...

s, in Cuba
Cuba
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His Guantanamo detainee ID number was 98.
The US Department of Defense reports that he was born on December 23, 1978, in Lahore
Lahore
Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

, Pakistan.

Capture and detention

According to Pakistan's The Nation Saeed was first captured by Abdul Rashid Dostam who held him under brutal conditions.
Dostam is widely reported to have sold hundreds of Afghans and Arab expatriates to American intelligence in return for bounties.

According to The Daily Times:
  • Saeed's father died while he was in detention. The Daily Times quoted Saeed: “I was quite upset when I heard the news (of my father’s death) but I will sacrifice anything for Islam,”
  • Saeed said he was ready to “go for Jihad again.”
  • Saeed said he was tortured at Guantanamo.
  • Saeed and two other of the released men agreed: “The authorities at Guantanamo Bay desecrated our holy book to humiliate us. However, we were given some religious freedom after the Red Cross’s intervention,”

Release

The Daily Times reported that Saeed was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were
released from Pakistani custody on June 28, 2005.
According to Daily Times Punjab's chief minister’s adviser on religious affairs,
Maulana
Maulana
Mawlānā is an Arabic word literally meaning "our lord" or "our master" ....

 Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, said local authorities wanted to investigate whether the men had been brainwashed and were still involved in any terrorist activity.

There is no record that Saeed's enemy combatant
Enemy combatant
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 status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...

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