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| Thu May 1 21:18:45 2008 Al-Jazeera Cameraman Sami al-Haj is released after 6 years. |
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| In Reporters Sans Frontieres I mentioned the al-Jazeera cameraman who had been imprisoned at Guantanamo for the past 6 years. I learned about him only in passing, since his imprisonment was one of the reasons that Reporters Without Borders ranked the US fairly low in press freedoms relative to the rest of the world. Today I saw in the headlines that Sami al-Haj has been freed. He was apparently bundled up on a plane and flown to the Sudan. No explanation for his years of detention has been given. I can only assume that his unnannounced and unexplained release, coming so soon after my entry, is due to the impact of my blog. Perhaps now that he was released our Press Freedoms ranking will climb a bit! The US State Department should release a Guantanamo prisoner each year, to boost our rank. Comments |
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