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The US military?s decision to free Bilal Hussein, a photojournalist held in Iraq for more than two years, is ?long overdue?, say human rights campaigners.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press photographer ? who helped win a Pulitzer Prize for the news agency three years ago ? is due to be released tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The US military has held Hussein since 12 April 2006 but no longer consider him a security threat.<\/p>\n

They believed he was a terrorist media operative<\/a> who infiltrated the news agency. <\/p>\n

?If the US and Iraqi authorities have evidence against detainees they should charge them and give them a fair trial, rather than holding them indefinitely,? said Joe Stork, the Middle East director of Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n

Hussein was detained on suspicion of working with insurgents but has always insisted that he was only doing his job as a journalist working in a war zone.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the US military granted Hussein amnesty, though the ruling does not assume or determine guilt or innocence. <\/p>\n

Explaining the decision, Major General Douglas M Stone said that the photographer ?no longer represents an imperative threat to security?.<\/p>\n

Hussein is a 36-year-old Iraqi citizen who, according to the agency?s own internal investigation, does not have ?inappropriate contact with insurgents?. <\/p>\n

Officials accused him of possessing surveillance images of military installations and ?insurgent propaganda materials? for making roadside bombs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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