The Strange and Sad Case of Bilal Hussein

Written by: DFA Staff on Apr 9, 2008 4:15 PM EDT

Bilal Hussein is an Associated Press photographer who has been held in United States custody in Iraq for over two years. He has been convicted of no crime and never placed on trial. On Monday, he got a little good news, the AP reports:

An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U.S. military.

Hussein, 36, remained in custody at Camp Cropper, a U.S. detention facility near Baghdad's airport.

He is still in military custody and there is no indication of when or if he will be freed.

"Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Danny
Communications Director

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