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Sami Al Haj - Muslimah - 08-01-2007
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Sami Al-Hajj, prisoner 345 at the United States Detainment Centre in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, has been on hunger strike since 7th January, 2007.
Sami was arrested in Pakistan in December 2001 whilst travelling with a legitimate visa to work in Afghanistan as a cameraman for Al Jazeera. But he is being held as an ‘enemy combatant’.
prisoner345.net is dedicated to empowering Sami’s family, friends and colleagues, together with all supporters of human rights around the world, in the campaign to set him free.
5 years later, cameraman still held at Guantanamo
Submitted by moeed on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 06:51. press
KHARTOUM, Sudan — He's all but unknown in the United States, the country of his jailers, but in his homeland of Sudan, Sami al Hajj is a national hero. The president has spoken out about him, demonstrations have been held in his name, and a bakery in Khartoum has printed his picture on its packaging.
A 38-year-old cameraman for the Arabic news network al Jazeera, Hajj has been imprisoned as an “enemy combatant” at the U.S.
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Pentagon statement regarding Sami al Hajj
Submitted by moeed on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 06:47. press
Capt. Jeffrey D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, issued the following statement on Hajj:
— Enemy combatants, such as Sami Al-Hajj, a Sudanese national, were picked up on the battlefield during Operation Enduring Freedom. In his case, it was along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan in December 2001. These enemy combatants were part of Taliban, Al Qaeda, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. This includes any person, like Al-Hajj, who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces.
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Humiliated In The Shackles
Submitted by ibrahima on Thu, 06/28/2007 - 15:55. press
This poem is an excerpt from an article which appeared in the Independent on June 21, 2007.
Humiliated In The Shackles
By Sami al Hajj
When I heard pigeons cooing in the trees,
Hot tears covered my face.
When the lark chirped, my thoughts composed
A message for my son.
Mohammad, I am afflicted.
In my despair, I have no one but Allah for comfort.
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Reporting on life behind the wire: The Sudanese journalist held in Guantanamo Bay
Submitted by ibrahima on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 10:38.
Sami al-Haj is a Sudanese journalist who was captured on his first assignment for Al Jazeera and has been detained without charge in Guantanamo Bay since June 2002. But, remarkably, imprisonment hasn't stopped him reporting on life behind the wire. Andrew Buncombe tells his story and talks to those he left behind
Published: 09 June 2007
Sami al-Haj spends his days alone, thinking of his wife and the son he barely knows.
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Sami al-Hajj: reporting on life in Gitmo
Submitted by moeed on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 21:00. press
How much longer before the US closes Gitmo down?
Reporting on Life in Guantanamo (excerpts below):
“For more than four years many of us have been isolated in a small cell, less that 10ft by 6ft, with the intense neon lights on 24 hours a day. Many of us are not allowed to exercise outside these cells for more than one hour, just once a week. We are provided with food and drinks which are not suitable for the iguanas and rats that live beside us on Torture Island.”
Blogged by the "Uprooted Palestinian Blogger". Read full post here.
Sami Haj Campaign NPC Meeting
Submitted by clive smith on Mon, 05/07/2007 - 13:19.
Start: 05/08/2007 - 00:30
End: 05/08/2007 - 11:00
Timezone: Etc/GMT
Joel Campagna of the CPJ is planning an event for Sami on May 8th, 2007, at 9:30-11:00 am at the National Press Club in DC. Zachary Katznelson will be present to speak from Reprieve.