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WRITTEN BY MOHAMMED OMER AND STEVE AMSEL A Journalist Beaten — One Year Later by Mohammed Omer Released: 26 Jun 2009 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 Jamil and I sharing the Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize in London — an awa |