BBC Radio 4: Sami al-Hajj on his return from Guantanamo
October 21st, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Broadcasting, Editors' pick, Press freedom and ethics
BBC Radio 4 has produced a programme featuring Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Hajj who was arrested on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001. It’s available on iPlayer for another six days and repeated on Radio 4 on Sunday (25/10).
“For more than six years he was held in the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention centre until, in 2008, he was suddenly released. In an exclusive interview, he talks to Gavin Esler about what happened to him, and why.”
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