Monday 29 January 2007 04:10.
Jan 28, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Television stations in Sudan turned black for three minutes on Sunday to protest the detention of a Sudanese cameraman held in U.S. custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison for more than five years.
A cameraman for the pan-Arab TV channel Al-Jazeera, Sami al-Hajj was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and is detained at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in southern Cuba.
Like several hundred other men held at Guantanamo on allegations they have links to international terrorism, al-Hajj has not been tried.
"We want him released immediately or, if there are any charges against him, that he be presented to trial" said Mohammed Mustafa Mamoon, the spokesman for the Sudanese TV union that organized the protest ...
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