Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari

Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari
Born February 18, 1965 (1965-02-18) (age 47)
Gaza, Palestine
Detained at Guantanamo
ISN 519
Status Still held in Guantanamo

Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari is a citizen of the West Bank, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1]

The Department of Defense reports that Al Quwari was born on February 18, 1965, in Gaza, Palestine.

As of April 23, 2010, Mahrar Rafat al Quwari has been held at Guantanamo for seven years 10 months.[2]

Experienced sleep deprivation

On August 7, 2008 the Washington Post reported that the Guantanamo guards defied their orders to discontinue the illegal practice of arbitrarily moving captives multiples times a day to deprive them of sleep.[3] The report stated that Maher Rafat al-Quwari had been one of the captives who was subjected to this practice, called the "frequent flyer program", during his interrogation.

References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ "Mahrar Rafat al Quwari - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/519-mahrar-rafat-al-quwari. 
  3. ^ Josh White (2008-08-07). "Tactic Used After It Was Banned: Detainees at Guantanamo Were Moved Often, Documents Say". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703004_pf.html. Retrieved 2008-08-07. "One "cell transfer schedule" for detainee 519 -- Maher Rafat al-Quwari -- shows that he was moved six times a day for 12 days in July 2003, with a four-hour interrogation session in the middle."  mirror

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