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Johnston: Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al-Haj has been held in Guantanamo for five years without charge. Photograph: AFP
The BBC's former Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston has written a letter of support for the al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al-Haj, who has been incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay since June 2002.

Journalist Sami al Haj was one of the first detainees to be held at Guantánamo Bay. Six years later, he is still waiting for a fair trial

Human rights are trampled in unlikely places: a shopping centre in Reading is the latest example

These days at Reprieve, we seem to be doing much of our human rights work on the high street. In February, there was the "Fair Trial My Arse" underwear in Agent Provocateur shop windows. This month, more questions were being asked of the Bush administration in Lush cosmetics stores.

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  Asma Ismailov, the wife of Sami al-Hajj, the Al-Jazeera cameraman held in Guantanamo Bay, has said that she has been told he is to be freed.Al-Hajj has been held as an "enemy combatant" by the US forces since 2001.Isma

  Asma Ismailov, the wife of Sami al-Hajj, the Al-Jazeera cameraman held in Guantanamo Bay, has said that she has been told he is to be freed.Al-Hajj has been held as an "enemy combatant" by the US forces since 2001.Isma

Keith Ellison stands up for rights of an imprisoned journalist.

St. Paul, Minn. — Minnesota's 5th District congressman Keith Ellison is calling for a trial for a journalist being detained in Guantanamo. Sami al-Haj was a camera man for the news service Al-Jazeera in 2001 when he was covering the war in Afghanistan.

He was captured by Pakistani authorites, who turned him over to the U.S. military. He was labeled an enemy combatant and is now being held at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A campaign to free a journalist imprisoned at Guantanamo gained support Thursday from the first Muslim member of Congress, who urged authorities to prosecute or release him after more than five years without charges. Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese cameraman for Al-Jazeera, was captured in 2002 as he tried to enter Afghanistan to cover the war. His lawyer says he denies any connection to terrorism and has been on a hunger strike since January to protest his indefinite confinement. In a rare show of public support from a U.S. official, Rep.