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Sudanese Journalist Sami al Hajj Released
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Amnesty International
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July 1, 2008
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Sudanese journalist Sami al Hajj was released on May 1 from Guantánamo, after nearly six and a half years in U.S. detention. Now 39, Sami had been working as a cameraman for the television station Al Jazeera when he was arrested by Pakistani police in 2002, while on his way to cover the conflict in Afghanistan. Pakistani authorities handed him over to the U.S. military, who took him to Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan and ultimately to Guantánamo. He was never charged with a crime.
"Conditions in Guantánamo are very, very bad," he told reporters in Khartoum, Sudan, upon being released. "They get worse by the day. [In Guantánamo] we have people from more than fifty countries who are ...
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