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Anisa Abdiaziz Hussein, Abdullahi Abdulqadir Ahmed, and Abdirizak Abdullahi Adan

‘Alarming escalation’: At least 41 journalists targeted since March in Somalia

Kampala, Uganda, May 15, 2025 – Somali security personnel have arrested, assaulted, or harassed at least 41 private-media journalists since mid-March, in what local press rights groups have called a “painful experience” and an “alarming escalation” in attacks on the media. Most of these press freedom violations were connected to coverage of national security issues,…

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A police officer guards a camp of internally displaced persons in Mogadishu. (AFP/Tony Karumba)

Journalist arrested for interviewing reported rape victim

Nairobi, January 11, 2013–Somali authorities should immediately release a freelance journalist who has been in custody in Mogadishu since Thursday for interviewing a woman who claimed she was raped by government soldiers, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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