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. 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. 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. 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.
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