Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Part 2: Al Jazeera’s Sami Al-Hajj on His 438-Day Hunger Strike in U.S. Detention at Gitmo Prison

Democracy Now!

"In part two of our exclusive interview, Sami al-Hajj — the Al Jazeera journalist imprisoned and tortured at Guantánamo for six years — describes how he waged a 438-day hunger strike to protest his detention. Al-Hajj was arrested in Pakistan in December of 2001 while traveling to Afghanistan on a work assignment. Held for six years without charge, al-Hajj was repeatedly tortured, hooded, attacked by dogs and hung from a ceiling. Interrogators questioned him more than 100 times about whether Al Jazeera was a front for al-Qaeda. Al-Hajj waged his hunger strike from January 2007 until his release in May 2008. Click here to watch Part 1 of this interview......"

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