The U.S. military released an Associated Press photographer on Wednesday after holding him for more than two years without filing formal charges. The photographer, Bilal Hussein, 36, was handed over to AP colleagues at a checkpoint in Baghdad.

To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Melinda Cooke of National Press Club, +1-202-662-7516 WASHINGTON, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sylvia Smith, president of the National Press Club, saluted the announcement Monday that the U.S.

An Iraqi judicial panel dismissed the last remaining criminal allegation against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein on Sunday and ordered him released from custody, two years and one day after he was detained by the U.S. military. - Robert H.

Text of press release in English by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on 9 April New York, 9 April, 2008: The Committee Protect Journalists welcomes an Iraqi judicial committee's decision to drop legal proceedings against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by U.S.

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Melinda Cooke, +1-202-662-7516, or Sylvia Smith, President, +1-202-879-6710, president@press.org, both of National Press Club WASHINGTON, April 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club joined other journalism organizations Wednesday in celebrating the dismissal of terrorism-related allegations against an Associated Press photographer.