Israr ul Haq
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Israr ul Haq 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
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
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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 515.

He was repatriated on 14 March 2004.

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.
Israr ul Haq
was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.

Israr ul Haq told his interviewer he had traveled to Afghanistan in August 2001 because he had health problems and it had been recommended to him that a religious pilgrimage to shrines in Afghanistan would help his health.

He described beating at both the US Kandahar detention facility and the Bagram Theater Internment Facility
Bagram Theater Internment Facility
The Parwan Detention Facility , also called the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, is a United States-run prison located next to Bagram Airfield in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan.It was formerly known as the Bagram Collection Point...

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He said he had witnessed Koran desecration in Guantanamo.

Israr ul Haq reported that the American interrogators were routinely dishonest with the captives:
"They said the person in the cage next to me said he saw me with al Qaida or Taliban leaders. But the interrogators were lying; no one had told them that. They lied to everybody. They told the men next to me that I had said they were in this battle or that one; but we talked with each other in our cages and realized they were making all of this up."

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