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Paris (dpa) - The Paris-based media rights organization Reporters Without Borders on Monday called on the US government to free two journalists being held at a US prison in Iraq and the military base at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Abdel Amir Yunes Hussein, of CBS TV network's CBS News programme, has been held at the Camp Bucca prison in Iraq since April 2005, while Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj has been at Guantanamo since 2002 after being arrested in Afghanistan the year before, the organization said in a press statement.
"These journalists have been denied justice and not allowed to see their families or lawyers," the international press freedom organization charged. "This is unacceptable."
Reporters Without Borders went on to call on US authorities "to break their silence" about the detentions and "reveal the evidence they claim to have of their illegal activities."
The organization said it was making five requests to the US Defense Department under the Freedom of Information Act, each concerning a journalists still imprisoned or recently freed, and demanding that all material on their cases be provided.
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