Imprisoned for six years without being charged or given a trial, Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj was finally released from the U.S. Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, late last week. Haj, “emaciated,” according to his attorney, because of a hunger strike that began in January 2007, was taken to a hospital and later arrived home in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.

“I’ve been dreaming of this moment for the past seven years,” the cameraman said in an interview with Al Jazeera. Haj also said that “rats are treated with more humanity” than Guantanamo’s inmates.

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