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Somalia – Disquiet about death penalty for man convicted of journalist’s murder
Reporters Without Borders deplores the death sentence that a military court passed yesterday on a man found guilty of radio journalist Hassan Yusuf Absuge’s murder last September in Mogadishu. “It is not up to us to decide the nature or severity of the sentences imposed on those convicted of murdering journalists, but we cannot regard the application of the death penalty as a victory,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We hail the measures taken by the authorities to identify and punish (…)
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Somalia – Provincial woman journalist gunned down while visiting Mogadishu
Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that a young woman journalist, Rahmo Abdulkadir, was gunned down on a Mogadishu street two days ago. Shot five times, she died on the spot. She is the second woman journalist to have been killed in the past eight years, following visiting BBC reporter Kate Peyton who was gunned down in Mogadishu in 2005. “We offer our heart-felt condolences to Abdulkadir’s family,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Noting the recent arrest of three suspects in the (…)
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Somalia – Young journalist gunned down in Galkayo in latest media killing
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Radio Galkayo journalist Ali Ahmed Abdi was shot dead by three gunmen as he was returning home yesterday in the north-central city of Galkayo, becoming the third journalist to be killed in Somalia since the start of 2012. The press freedom organization condemns the lack of any action on the part of the local authorities and international community in response to this unacceptable spate of murders. “With three journalists already murdered (…)
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Somalia – Radio Somaliweyn manager gunned down outside Mogadishu home
Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, the manager of Mogadishu-based radio Somaliweyn, was shot dead today outside his home in the capital’s Aargada district by men armed with pistols. The press freedom organization condemns his cold-blooded murder, which joins a long list of crimes of violence against journalists in Somalia, and reiterates its call to the international community to do everything possible to ensure that these killings do not go (…)
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Somalia – Open letter to delegations participating in the London Conference on Somalia on 23 February 2012
Reporters Without Borders has written to the more than 50 national and international delegations attending tomorrow’s one-day London Conference on Somalia to draw their attention to the alarming situation of journalists in Somalia. Open letter to delegations participating in the London Conference on Somalia on 23 February 2012 Paris, 21 February 2012 Subject: Call for an independent international commission of enquiry into the murders of journalists and for the creation of (…)
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Somalia – Harassment and attacks on journalists in Puntland and Somaliland
With growing concern, Reporters Without Borders has registered at least eight serious press freedom violations ranging from arbitrary arrest to shooting attacks on journalists in the past two months in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland and the breakaway northwestern territory of Somaliland. In most of these cases, there has been no investigation and no one has been punished. “When attention is turned to Somalia, it tends to focus on the ruined capital of Mogadishu, where (…)
