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Visiting Professor and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) Barbara Olshansky is quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about the detainment of journalists in Iraq and Afghanistan, including IHRC client Jawad Ahmad, a Canadian Television journalist being held at a U.S. base in Bagram, Afghanistan:
Ahmad's lawyer, Stanford law professor Barbara Olshansky, hasn't been allowed to contact him. But she said family members who have spoken to him by video say he was targeted for allegedly having contacts with "low-level Taliban people" in Afghanistan, which she said was part of his job.
"It was exactly for the practice of journalism, for doing their job, that (the three journalists) were put away," Olshansky said.