New York, July 5, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by the imprisonment of two radio journalists in Bossasso, a city in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland. Sheekh Aduun, director of the Bossasso radio affiliate of the private STN network, and Awale Jama, an editor at the station, have been in police…
Your Excellencies, We, the undersigned local and international press freedom and human rights organizations, call for the immediate release from prison of Abdi Farah Nur, editor of the weekly newspaper Shacab in Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland. Local journalists believe his detention is linked to critical articles in Shacab about the Puntland leadership and Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
New York, June 28, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists joined five local and international press freedom and human rights groups today in writing to Somali leaders to demand the immediate release of Abdi Farah Nur, editor of Puntland’s leading independent newspaper Shacab (Voice of the People). Farah was arrested on June 19 and later transferred…
New York, June 20, 2005—Authorities in the autonomous Puntland region of northeast Somalia arrested Abdi Farah Nur, editor of the weekly Shacab (Voice of the People), after the newspaper resumed publication yesterday in defiance of an indefinite government suspension. Farah was being held without charge in a Garowe jail today, Shacab General Manager Abdirahman Abdulle…
JUNE 19, 2005 Updated: July 25, 2005 Abdi Farah Nur, Shacab IMPRISONED Police in the autonomous Puntland region of northeast Somalia arrested Farah, editor of the weekly Shacab (The People), after the newspaper resumed publication in defiance of an indefinite government suspension. Farah was not immediately charged, but was being held in a Garowe jail,…
New York, June 6, 2005 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of radio journalist Duniya Muhyadin Nur, who was shot to death on Sunday while covering a protest in Afgoye, some 18.6 miles (30 km) from the capital, Mogadishu. Muhyadin, 26, was a reporter for the Mogadishu-based radio station Capital Voice, owned by…
New York, May 26, 2005—Veteran journalist Abdallah Nurdin Ahmad was wounded Tuesday night in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, when an unidentified gunman fired three times at close range, according to CPJ sources. Nurdin, a senior producer at the private radio station HornAfrik, underwent surgery at Medina Hospital and was recovering today. Ali Iman Sharmake, HornAfrik’s…
MAY 24, 2005 Posted: June 9, 2005 Abdallah Nurdin Ahmad, HornAfrik ATTACKED Veteran journalist Nurdin was wounded in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, when an unidentified gunman fired three times at close range, according to CPJ sources. Nurdin, a senior producer at the private radio station HornAfrik, underwent surgery at Medina Hospital and was recovering.