Javaid Iqbal, et al.
Respondents
AlexanderA. Reinert, Counsel of Record Javaid Iqbal is a Pakistani citizen who was arrested by Federal officials in New York City in November 2001and detained at the Metropolitan Detention Centerin Brooklyn pending trial on charges of creating fraudulent identification documents. BetweenJanuary 2002 and July2002, he was deemed to be “of high interestto the government’s investigation of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and washeld in restrictiveconditions in theAdministrative Maximum SpecialHousing Unit (ADMAXSHU). He ultimately pleaded guilty to the criminal charges against him and was sentenced to a 16-month term of imprisonmentand later removed to Pakistan. He subsequentlysued the United…