Guantanamo prisoner urges release of BBC journalist
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A television cameraman held prisoner for years at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has issued an impassioned plea for the release of a fellow journalist kidnapped in Gaza.
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PARIS  - A Briton released from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, told Europe's top human rights body Friday he was beaten, shackled, kept in a cramped cage and fed rotten food as part of "systematic abuse" in custody.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  Top aides to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on kidnappers Thursday to free a Western journalist they are threatening to kill unless US forces withdraw from the holy city of Najaf.
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The Hamas militant group in Gaza says it has urged BBC reporter Alan Johnston's kidnappers to release him immediately.
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LONDON: A Briton being held at Guantanamo Bay saw US military interrogators kill two detainees at an American base in Afghanistan, he said in a letter, details of which were being released by his lawyers.
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Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq urged his   followers to capture foreign hostages to try to free a Muslim   cleric jailed in the United States, according to an Internet   audio tape issued on Thursday.
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Relatives and rights lawyers urged Prime  Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to demand the release of all  Britons and other Europeans from the U.S. prison camp at  Guantanamo Bay when he meets President Bush this week.
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The U.S.-based Committee to Protect  Journalists has urged Saudi Arabia to release a blogger who has  been detained in the conservative Muslim kingdom for almost a  month for his writings.
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The British government and the brother of a British hostage in Iraq have appealed for his release on pan-Arab satellite television.
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LONDON  - A Briton being held at Guantanamo Bay was tortured, held in solitary confinement for almost two years and "partially witnessed" U.S. military interrogators killing two detainees at an American base in Afghanistan, he said in a letter released by his lawyers Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Jazeera television has broadcast a tape of hostage Margaret Hassan pleading for the release of female prisoners in Iraq and the withdrawal of British troops.
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Captors release film of BBC journalist wearing what he says is an explosives belt.
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Remaining inmates held at Guantanamo Bay should be freed, says Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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A Hamas official said Sunday that kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has been held by Gaza militants since March, would be freed soon, but others played down hopes of an imminent release.
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A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay said in a letter revealed Friday he was tortured and abused during detention, in what is believed to be the first such claim to come from inside the prison.
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Award-winning BBC journalist Alan Johnston marks 100 days in the captivity of Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as colleagues hold vigils for his release around the world.
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The captors of BBC reporter Alan Johnston insisted on Tuesday they were not prepared to negotiate and again demanded Britain and Jordan free Muslim prisoners in exchange for the correspondent.