Asif Iqbal (Guantanamo detainee)

Asif Iqbal
Born (1981-04-24) 24 April 1981 (age 43)
West Bromwich, West Midlands, England
Arrested2001
Pakistan
Released9 March 2004
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Detained at Sheberghan; Guantanamo
ISN87
Charge(s)extrajudicial detention
Statusreleased

Asif Iqbal (born 24 April 1981) is a British citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention as a terror suspect in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba from early 2002 to 9 March 2004.[1]

He is one of the Tipton Three, three friends from the same town who were captured together in Afghanistan. Their story was portrayed in the docu-drama, Road to Guantanamo (2006).

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