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2010

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Journalist Killed in Somalia; Censorship and Imprisonment in Puntland

(Source: NUSOJ/RSF/IPI/CPJ/IFEX)

Authorities in Puntland have banned journalists from interviewing rebels who are fighting the regional government. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), along with several international press freedom organisations, also report that a journalist who broadcast an interview with an Islamist rebel chief has been punished with a six-year prison sentence. In Mogadishu, clashes continue between the Transitional Federal Government and the Islamist group Al-Shabaab, claiming the life of prominent radio journalist Barkhad Awale Adan on 24 August.

Mr. Adan, a journalist for 30 years, spent the last four years as director of the Hurma community radio station located in a government-controlled area. On the same day, at least 33 people were killed when two suicide bombers detonated explosives at a hotel near the presidential palace.

On 23 August, Al-Shabaab took over privately owned Radio Holy Quran (IQK) in northern Mogadishu. NUSOJ now fears the station will be used to spread hate messages. In Puntland, the information minister held a press conference on 15 August and ordered the media not to interview rebels in mountain villages along the northeast coast. The rebels have been combating Puntland forces in the district of Galgala. The minister claimed the rebels have links with international terrorists and threatened that any journalist or media house that failed to obey his order would face "severe punishment".

Prior to announcing this new decree, Abdifatah Jama Mire, director of radio Horseed Media FM, was arrested on 13 August after interviewing the militant leader Sheikh Mohamed Said Atom. Seven other journalists were arrested and released.

Mr. Mire was accused of "broadcasting the views of people who are fighting the government" and found guilty of breaching Puntland’s anti-terror law on 14 August. The media were barred from the brief trial and Mr. Mire was not permitted to have a lawyer.

Link: Journalist Killed; Censorship and Imprisonment in Puntland (IFEX).

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