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A Journalist Beaten – One Year Later

Mohammed Omer and Dahr Jamail
Journalists Dahr Jamail (left) and Mohammed Omer (right). (PHOTO SUPPLIED)

By Mohammed Omer
Agence Global

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June 26, 2008 is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day I was detained, interrogated, strip searched, and tortured while attempting to return home from a European speaking tour, which culminated in independent American journalist Dahr Jamail and I sharing the Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize in London — an…

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