AP Photographer Still Held in Iraq

Source: Associated Press

AP Photographer Still Held in Iraq

By DAVID CRARY
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 11, 2007; 3:14 PM

NEW YORK -- One year after his arrest, an Associated Press photographer
is still being held at a prison camp in Iraq by U.S. military officials who have
neither formally charged him with a crime nor made public any evidence
of wrongdoing.

Bilal Hussein was taken prisoner in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on
April 12, 2006. Twelve months later, the U.S. military claims it is justified
in continuing to imprison him merely because it considers him a security
threat.

"April 12 is a sad anniversary for Bilal's AP colleagues worldwide," said the
AP's executive editor, Kathleen Carroll. "He has now been held by the U.S.
military in Iraq for an entire year without formal charges or the due process
that a democratic society demands."

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