Somalia Releases Al-Jazeera Journalist
Thursday October 20, 2016
"We are very concerned about the summary detention of
journalists without due process," he said. "We urge that journalists'
rights are not violated at a time when Somalia is preparing for
elections."
Moallimu says 17 journalists have been arrested or
detained across Somalia this year, and none of them were changed.
Somalia has long been known as one of the most dangerous places in the
world for journalists to work. Moallimu says three journalists have been
killed this year. Dozens more have been killed since the country
descended into civil war in 1991.
On Tuesday, Somali authorities released the editor of a local newspaper. The editor of Xog-Ogaal newspaper, Abdi Aden Guled, was released after negotiations between the government and the National Union of Somali Journalists. Guled said the security agents who arrested him complained about a picture published by the paper last week, showing the killing of civilians by al-Shabab in the town of El-Ali.
Somalia Releases Al-Jazeera Journalist
Somali authorities have released al-Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed along with a fixer and a cameraman, two days after their arrest.Security forces had detained the men for questioning in Mogadishu after they went to an area controlled by militant g