updated Sat. December 30, 2023
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The Intercept
March 26, 2017
Egyptian journalists hold a banner supporting Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese national who was arrested by the U.S. military while working for Al Jazeera during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, as they call for his freedom during a protest in front of their syndicate in Cairo in 2007.
The Independent
February 24, 2016
Among those wrongly detained was Sami al-Haj, is a Sudanese journalist who was captured on his first assignment for Al Jazeera. Abuse. Although it was claimed the prisoners were being kept in humane conditions, within the first two year it was revealed that inmates were subjected to Abu Ghraib-styleÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online (blog)
July 31, 2015
Sami al-Haj, an Al-Jazeera cameraman, was detained in December 2001 by Pakistani forces along the Afghan-Pakistani border while covering a U.S.-led offensive against the Taliban in Afghanistan. U.S. military forces accused the Sudanese cameraman of being a financial courier for armed groups andÃâà...
Al Jazeera America
November 2, 2014
Sami al-Haj, manager of the Human Rights and Public Liberties department and a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, welcomed more than 60 invitees from international and local organisations specialising in the protection of journalists, media workers, and human rights activists. Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO,Ãâà...
The National
January 5, 2013
Alawi Alsafi, Mohammad Murad, Sami Al Haj and Anas Bukhashem performing at the American University of Sharjah. Pawan Singh / The National. Twenty-five year-old Emirati Alawi Alsafi is an electrical engineer by day and a barbershop singer by night. "The greatest honour for me would be to one dayÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
October 4, 2006
Dcember 15, 2001, dawned overcast at Pakistan's Chaman crossing point into Afghanistan, and Al-Jazeera reporter Abdelhaq Sadah and cameraman Sami Muhyideen al-Haj were anxious to get moving. Just across the border, the Taliban had fled Kandahar, their rule effectively ended by a fierce U.S. air and AfghanÃâà...
BBC News
January 29, 2005
It also urged the US authorities to explain the reasons for its detention of al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, or to release him immediately. Al-Jazeera claims at least 35 million viewers and has been dubbed the CNN of the Middle East. It has rejected attacks fromÃâà...
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