Free the Captives: Witness Against Illegal Detention and Torture

Aljazeera has aired a new video this morning showing the CPT catpives. Edit: CNN is showing pictures from the video, of Harmeet Sooden, Jim Loney, and Norman Kember. A TV report from Reuters includes video from the release, and a report from CBC also has RealPlayer footage. Our friend Tom Fox is not shown in the video.

from BBC News:

The UK Foreign Office said it was concerned the American Tom Fox did not appear on the tape dated 28 February.

"We hope that all four are well and will be released unharmed," she added.

CPT, which has been calling for an end to the presence of US and British troops in Iraq, said it would continue "to pray for their safe and speedy release" of its four members.

"We do not know what to make of Tom Fox's absence from this video. However we do know what motivated Tom and his colleagues to go to Iraq," it said in a statement. [...]

The video, which was broadcast with no sound, showed Mr Kember alongside Canadians James Loney, 41, a community worker from Toronto, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, an electrical engineer from Montreal.

But Mr Fox, 54, from Clearbrook, Virginia, who has been working with CPT and Iraqi human rights organisations for the past two years, did not appear.

According to al-Jazeera, the three hostages appealed to Gulf leaders and their own governments to help bring about their release.

The men had travelled to Iraq as a gesture of solidarity with the Canadian-based Christian Peacemaker Teams.