"We are thrilled, " said Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Joel Simon, executive director of CPJ, says the increasing dangers to journalists are in part because of the changing way the media does its business.

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"We are thrilled that Bilal Hussein's troubling ordeal has finally come to an end and that he is now a free man, " said Joel Simon, the group's executive director.

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