Here is the appeal decision,
Today we went to the district court,to hear the 3 judges sentence for my appeal against 6 months prison for speaking to foreign Media.
The sentence by the 3 judges was 3 months prison, instead of 6 months.
They again found me guilty for speaking to foreign media.
We can try to appeal this sentence in the supreme court.
So I can be free until we will hear from the supreme court.
-vmjc
After a plight largely ignored by the international media, Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman held in Guantanamo Bay, is to receive an international press freedom award.
Al-Hajj (left, photo courtesy of William Edward Graham/ GIJC-2008 Lillehammer, Norway), an assistant cameraman for the Arabic channel, was captured by Pakistani intelligence close to the Afghan border and [...]
New York, The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of a cameraman held by U.S. forces in Iraq, and calls on the military to release a freelance journalist working for Reuters who has been held since Tuesday.
Omar Husham, 28?, a cameraman with Baghdad TV?, a satellite channel owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party, [...]
By Noah Shachtman
U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested two journalists in separate raids, IraqSlogger reports. They are the latest in a long string of reporters, cameramen, and photographers who have been detained in Iraq.
Ibrahim Jasim, an Iraqi cameraman working with the Reuters news agency, was taken from his home in Babil Province by a joint [...]
New York, The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the detention of two Iraqi journalists by the U.S. military in separate incidents and calls on the authorities to make clear any charges against them or release them immediately.
Omar Husham, 28?, was arrested along with his father and two brothers at his house in the [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military released an Iraqi television cameraman for the Reuters news agency and other news organizations without charges Thursday after 23 days in detention.
Ali al-Mashhadani, who also works for the British Broadcasting Corp. and National Public Radio, had been detained twice before, including for a five-month stretch.
Al-Mashhadani was freed “because he [...]
Author: Esra’a (Bahrain)
You might remember our previous posts calling for the unblocking of Yemeni websites, all of which remain blocked within the country to this day. But that is not all, owners and editors of the blocked websites have been threatened and harrassed, and at least one has been imprisoned without trial, a legitimate charge [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. military must charge or immediately release a Reuters cameraman detained in Iraq, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday.
Reuters journalist Ali al-Mashhadani (R), a television cameraman,
embraces a colleague shortly after his release from Abu Ghraib
prison in Baghdad January 15, 2006.
REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani
Ali al-Mashhadani, who also works [...]
Zoriah Miller
June 26, 2008 Marines who were killed in a suicide bomb attack during a city council meeting inGarma, Iraq,
in Anbar Province. More Photos >
By MICHAEL KAMBER and TIM ARANGO
BAGHDAD — The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of [...]
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Nayyar Zaidi, the well-known US-based Pakistani-American journalist, who has been a citizen of the United States for more than 30 years has been in US custody for the last four months on what are said to be terrorism-related charges.
According to one report, Zaidi is being held on the charge of “obstruction [...]
..Yet another journalist arrested in Iraq. This is also happening in Afghanistan. Gee, you’d think they don’t want us to know the truth or something…..
Committee to Protect Journalists
330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 USA Phone: (212) 465?1004 Fax: (212) 465?9568 Web: www.cpj.org [...]
An Iraqi man sits in a chair in small wood shack with no windows and little ventilation. A torn shirt blindfolds his eyes and his wrists are tightly bound with plastic, military handcuffs. He sits perfectly still even as he hears the door open.
yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = “Iraq Detainees - Photo Essay by ZORIAH”;
http://freedetainees.org/1539
..If you read nothing else, read this..
Text of report by privately-owned Afghan Ariana TV
[Presenter] National and foreign organizations for protection of journalists have described the condition of journalists in Afghanistan as shocking. They also demanded an unconditional release of Afghan journalist Jawid Ahmad, who is currently being detained in the US Bagram prison. Mariam Asi [...]
By Gideon Levy
He has already seen everything. At 24, he has already been documenting the horrors of his city, Rafah, for six years. He photographs and writes, seeking to be a voice for those who are voiceless, as he puts it. On his Web site Rafah Today (www.rafahtoday.org) - like that of USA Today or [...]
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Gaza correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and co-recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was hospitalized with cracked ribs and other injuries inflicted by Israeli soldiers at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan into the occupied West Bank.
Omer was returning home to Gaza after a [...]
By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY (IPS) - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to return home to [...]
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Jawed Ahmad, a driver and assistant for reporters of a Canadian television network in Afghanistan, knew the roads to avoid, how to get interviews and which stories to pitch. Reporters trusted him, his bosses say.
Then, one day about seven months ago, the 22-year-old CTV News contractor [...]
By Chris Allbritton (back-to-iraq)
Bret Stephens, a regular columnist for the Journal’s op-ed page, finds four American-installed leaders in Iraq who back McCain. Imagine that. He then takes these four guys’ views and extrapolates them to include all Iraqis. And while he mentions a Pew poll that shows the overwhelming majority of the world supports Sen. [...]
WASHINGTON — At the request of chief Pentagon spokesman Col. Gary Keck, McClatchy submitted 15 questions to the Department of Defense on Oct. 1, 2007. In addition to the list of questions, McClatchy provided a spreadsheet with the names, nationalities and internment numbers of 63 of the 66 former detainees whom its reporters had interviewed.
Keck [...]
(March 2008 VIDEO BELOW)
Associated Press president Tom Curley says his news organization does not buy the government’s argument that one of its photographers arrested in Iraq was working on behalf of the enemy, and he alleged the US is rounding up journalists in an attempt to control information.
“To say the least, we see things [...]
Reporters Without Borders has just learned that journalist and human rights activist Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov is being held in the western autonomous region of Karakalpakstan on a drug possession charge which fellow journalists believe was trumped up.
A criminal court in the regional capital of Nukus ordered him placed in pre-trial detention today but the exact [...]
By Dr. Marwan Asmar
Online Journal Contributing Writer
It was freedom at last! The release of Sami Al Haj after six-and-a-half years, languishing in prison on Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, is a surreal reality going to the heart of international political intrigue, media manipulation and human rights violations.
Despite what is regarded as a botched up theatrical play [...]
By Andy Worthington
Al-Jazeera has the first interview with Sami al-Haj since his return to the Sudan from Guantánamo late last night. The journalist, seized while on assignment for al-Jazeera in December 2001, had been on hunger strike for the last 16 months of his 76-month imprisonment without charge or trial by the United States, and [...]
By Opheera McDoom
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday after more than six years in the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison, urging Washington to respect human rights and branding torture as terrorism.
Haj said he and the other Guantanamo detainees had been subjected to all kinds of torture, but the [...]
By Rhodri Davies
Mohammed al-Haj, Sami’s son, sent a message to his father from Al Jazeera’s offices
Mohammed al-Haj, Sami’s son, sent a message to his father from Al Jazeera’s offices
Wearing a pristine white thobe, a dark skinned eight-year-old boy of Sudanese decent looks into a video camera.
He says: “Ana bahibak baba” (I love you dad) - [...]
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