NEW YORK (Reuters) - Javaid Iqbal's lawyers say the Pakistani cable repairman was snatched in the post-Sept. 11 dragnet and held for over a year at a Brooklyn detention center, where guards beat him mercilessly.
Iqbal, like hundreds of Muslims or Arabs detained in the days after the attacks but never charged, sued the U.S. government, saying that he was held and abused for no legitimate reason.
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