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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (4324)2/18/2003 11:11:11 AM
From: lorne   of 15987
 
Tortured Journalist Hassan Bility Describes Six Months in Jail
Posted to the web February 17, 2003
February 17, 2003
Musue N. Haddad
Washington, DC

Liberian journalist Hassan Bility was arrested with colleagues in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, in June 2002 and held incommunicado for almost six months as what the government of Charles Taylor called an "unlawful combatant" and "prisoner of war". During his detention he was interrogated even, he says, by President Taylor himself, and tortured repeatedly.

" I am grateful to President George Bush, Mr Colin Powell - let's say I am grateful to the American government and people but I like to remind them that they should continue to mount pressure so that the other guys who are held in jail for committing absolutely no crime are set free."

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