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Village Voice: Journalist Held At Guantanamo Freed After Six Years Without Charges
May 2, 2008
An al Jazeera cameraman was released after spending six years detained at Guantanamo Bay without being charged. Sami al-Hajj was on assignment in Afghanistan in 2001 when he was captured by U.S. forces as a suspected terrorist. Joel Simon, the executive director of The Committee to Protect Journalists, said the prolonged imprisonment was a "grave injustice" and "represents a threat to all journalists."
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