By Vivienne Walt Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One [...]
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 [...]
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami al-Hajj is back at work with Al-Jazeera, the largest broadcaster in the Arab world, a thorn in the side of most Arab governments - and, by most indications, a target of deep hostility from the [...]
Silvia Cattori
URUKNET / CagePrisoners
Translated for Cageprisoners by Sue Bingham
Standing straight and tall, an impressive and deeply introspective man, Sami El Haj walks with a limp and the help of a walking stick. Neither laughter nor smiles light up the refined face of this man, old before his time. A deep sadness pervades him. He was [...]
AL JAZEERA television said yesterday it had appointed a cameraman held for six years without charge at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay as producer at its new freedoms and human rights programmes department.
“I will do my utmost to reveal to the world the violations committed against humans,” Sudanese-born Sami al-Haj, who was handed to [...]
By FRANK JORDANS
GENEVA (AP) — Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into “nomads” to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday.
Sami al-Haj said moving detainees between camps and from cell to cell appeared to be part of an official [...]
San Francisco Bay View, Commmentary, Safiya Ghori
Almost seven years after 9/11, Guantanamo Bay remains a shameful symbol of the War on Terror. The United States continues to argue that the Constitution has no jurisdiction outside U. S. borders, thereby violating international and national law. Guantanamo Bay has since housed hundreds of men accused of being [...]
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 [...]
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday, a day after being released from six years of custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp where described conditions as “bad and getting worse.”
Al-Haj, 38, whose detention drew worldwide condemnation, was released from the U.S. military prison along with two other Sudanese. [...]
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 [...]
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