I read this article in the Iowa State Daily on Friday May 2nd. The article is about Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese journalist for Arabic news station Al-Jazeera. Al-Haj was released from U.S. custody after being held prisoner for 6 years in Guantanamo Bay. He was captured in 2001 while trying to enter Afghanistan to cover the United States invasion. Al-Haj was held because of suspicions that he had interviewed Osama bin Laden. The article states that he has been on hunger strike since January 2007, protesting the "conditions and indefinite confinement" in Guantanamo Bay. Attorney Zachary Katznelson said on May 1st, "Sami is a poster child for everything that is wrong about Guantanamo Bay: no charges, no trial".
This article does a very good job of showing the injustice of some of the United States practices in Guantanamo Bay. It shows that there are innocent people being held without any real reason for ridiculous periods of time. I can only hope that with the amount of publicity this man has received, the U.S. will be forced to alter their policies in Guantanamo.
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