Sami al-Haj

http://cpj.org/reports/2006/10/prisoner.php

Today we toured Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite news station. At the station, I met Sami al-Haj. He is a celebrity around here, but I confess I had not heard of him before today. In 2001, he was working as a cameraman in Afghanistan for Al-Jazeera when he arrested and detained in Guantanamo Bay for over six years. He was released in 2008, when he was sent back to Sudan. He remained hospitalized for several months before returning home. Now he is back in Doha working at Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera claims his case was a complete sham and that he was detained in order to harass Al-Jazeera. (The Bush administration was openly hostile to Al-Jazeera, claiming they supported terrorism and perhaps worked for Al Qaida. ) Click on the link above for a more detailed discussion of his case.