Samy Al Hajj

Samy was a cameraman at Al Jazeera news TV Channel on his way to Afghanistan to cover American invasion when he was captured by US forces. He is now held in Guantanamo detention camp without any trial.

Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj is a citizen of Sudan. He was born in Khartoum, Sudan on February 15, 1969.

At the time of his capture in Pakistan, in December 2001, he was on his way to work in Afghanistan as a cameraman for Al Jazeera and had a legitimate visa. But he is held as an "enemy combatant".

A special report by BBC Radio 4 gave an exclusive glimpse of the world inside Guantanamo Bay detention centre, told through the letters of a Sami al-Hajj.

British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represents Al Hajj, and was able to visit him in 2005. According to Smith Al Hajj reported:

He has been beaten. Smith said he had a huge scar on his face.
Al Hajj witnessed guards flushing a Koran down a toilet.
Al Hajj witnessed guards defacing a Koran with swear words.
He has been sexually assaulted.
He has been interrogated roughly 130 times.
On 23 November 2005, Stafford-Smith reported that, during (125 of 130) interviews, U.S. officials had questioned Sami as to whether Al Jazeera was a front for al-Qaeda

Smith offered the opinion:

"He is completely innocent. He is about as much of a terrorist as my granddad. The only reason he has been treated like he has is because he is an Aljazeera journalist. The Americans have tried to make him an informant with the goal of getting him to say that Aljazeera is linked to al-Qaida."

Al-Jazeera has responded that al-Hajj reported his passport stolen in Sudan in 1999, and that anything done with the passport after that date was likely the work of identity thieves.

Reporters Without Borders have repeatedly expressed concern over Al-Haj's detention mentioned Al-Haj in their annual worldwide press freedom Index, and launched a petition for his release. Al Hajj has recently been on hunger strike along with a few other inmates in protest of their treatment in Guantanamo

Help Samy By putting Pressure on the Government of the United Sates of America to Release him and All other innocent prisoners held Hostage in Guantanamo.