I received the following statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists…

An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval station lost 36 pounds (16.3 Kilograms) while on hunger strike in January, and has since been force-fed, his lawyer confirmed to CPJ.
Sami al-Haj, of the Qatar-based satellite news channel, began his hunger strike on January 7 to protest five years of detention without trial and prison conditions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith told CPJ in an email. Al-Haj has demanded a fair trial in a U.S. civilian court or freedom.

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