US Releases Iraqi Journalist from Prison after EIGHT Months and NO Charges

[leftchick]

Reuters television cameraman Samir Mohammed Noor (R) walks with Reuters Iraq Bureau Chief Alastair Macdonald after he was released from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad January 22, 2006. The U.S. military freed Noor, an Iraqi journalist who works for Reuters, on Sunday after holding him for nearly eight months without charge. Noor was the third journalist working for Reuters to be freed from military custody after two others were released a week ago. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

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Noor, a 30-year-old freelance television cameraman, spent time in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and lately at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq; he was arrested at his home in the violent northern city of Tal Afar in early June during a general search of his neighborhood by Iraqi and U.S. troops.

"We are glad that all journalists working for Reuters in Iraq are now free," said Reuters Global Managing Editor David Schlesinger.

"We are concerned, however, that it has taken so long -- nearly eight months in the case of Samir -- to secure their release, despite a lack of credible evidence against them."

Two Reuters journalists from the restive western city of Ramadi, cameraman Ali al-Mashhadani and reporter Majed Hameed, who also works for Al-Arabiya television, were freed on January 15 after five and four months in custody respectively.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-22T100730Z_01_L22702896_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-REUTERS.xml&archived=False

[madeline_con]

1. I hope we get the whole story of his treatment, etc. soon. n/t

EDIT: One sentence, and I misspell a word! :banghead:

[leftchick]

2. yes I think reuters should do an indepth report

on the "improvements" at Abu Grhaib. :eyes:

[mom cat]

3. Very good post. K&R