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On the 11th anniversary of Guantánamo Bay’s use as a prison for foreign
detainees, we air a Democracy Now! exclusive interview with Sami
al-Hajj, the only journalist held at Guantánamo. The Al Jazeera
cameraman was arrested in Pakistan in December of 2001 while traveling
to Afghanistan on a work assignment. Held for six years without charge,
al-Hajj was repeatedly tortured, hooded, attacked by dogs and hung from a
ceiling. Interrogators questioned him over 100 times about whether Al
Jazeera was a front for al-Qaeda. In January 2007, he began a hunger
strike that lasted 438 days until his release in May 2008. Now the head
of Al Jazeera’s human rights and public liberties desk, al-Hajj sits
down for a rare interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman in Doha,
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