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On April 12, 2006, Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was detained by the US Forces in Iraq and held in prison since. No one has yet presented formal charges against Bilal who is behind bars for having the courage of photographing Iraqi insurgents. Bilal was part of an AP team who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for the coverage of the Iraq war. His arrest and imprisonment are a serious affront to the press as a whole and to democratic traditions. We, colleagues from around the world, are seriously concerned for his life in view of the amount of time he has been locked up and the prison conditions which he is being submitted to. For these reasons we demand his immediate release. |