Sami al-Hajj had been working as a cameraman for Al Jazeera when he was arrested on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001.
Since then he has spent six years in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Al-Hajj had been sent to the area to cover the US war against the Taliban and held a legitimate work visa.
He was arrested after suspicions that he had links with al-Qaeda when his name and passport number came up on a list
A reproduction of Sami al-Hajj's drawing from his series Sketches of My Nightmare
The passport number that the Pakistanis had was for an old document that al-Hajj had previously reported as having
He was kept prisoner in Afghanistan and Pakistan for five months before being handed over to US forces and taken to Guantanamo Bay as an "enemy combatant".
For the past seven years he has been prisoner 345.
He is the only journalist to be detained at Guantanamo Bay without being charged.
clipped from: english.aljazeera.net 