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Reuters Demands Release of Journalists from U.S. Detention

HeadlineAug 30, 2005

Waleed Khaled’s colleague — Reuters cameraman Haider Kadhem — remains in U.S. detention. He too was shot by an American sniper and was the only eyewitness to the killing of Khaled. Reuters is calling for his immediate release. Reuters Global Managing Editor David Schlesinger said, “We fail to understand what reason there can be for his continued detention more than a day after he was the innocent victim of an incident in which his colleague was killed.” The Committee to Protect Journalists also called for Khadem’s immediate release. Meanwhile a third Iraqi journalist working for Reuters has now been held incommunicado in the Abu Ghraib prison for three weeks without facing charges.

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