Authorities arrest Shabelle Media Network journalists, close station again
April 7, 2015 4:39 PM ET
Nairobi, April 7, 2015--Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency raided the Shabelle Media Network offices on April 3, arrested staff and shuttered the privately owned stations Radio Shabelle and Sky FM, according to local journalists. The raid came after the...
Radio journalists given hefty fines in Somalia, one still detained
March 3, 2015 11:20 AM ET
Nairobi, March 3, 2015--A Somali court in Mogadishu on Sunday convicted one journalist of public incitement and two others of publishing false news and imposed harsh fines on them, according to news reports. The journalists are out of prison,...
Somali authorities detain three journalists and shutter radio station
August 21, 2014 11:11 AM ET
Nairobi, August 21, 2014 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the detention of three Shabelle Media Network journalists and the closure of their station. Security agents arrested 19 individuals at the network's offices in the...
Somali police should release Sky FM journalist
March 31, 2014 4:21 PM ET
Nairobi, March 31, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Somali authorities in the capital, Mogadishu, to release a radio journalist who has been held without charge since Sunday. Nuradin Hassan is an editor of Sky FM, as well...
Somali journalists arrested after airing rape allegations
November 21, 2013 4:00 PM ET
Nairobi, November 21, 2013--Somali authorities arrested two journalists, one of them the victim of an alleged rape, on Wednesday in Mogadishu, the capital, and charged them with defamation in connection with a report on the alleged rape, according to news...
Shabelle off air and staff evicted, fearing for safety
October 30, 2013 10:49 AM ET
The young staff members of Radio Shabelle, whose offices were in the relatively safe section of Mogadishu next to the airport, are no longer feeling safe. On Saturday, while presenters were on the air, heavily armed security forces raided...
Police beat journalists attending court case in Mogadishu
March 12, 2013 3:04 PM ET
Nairobi, March 12, 2013--Somali police attacked and obstructed more than a half-dozen journalists who were seeking to cover a rape trial in Mogadishu on Saturday, as authorities continue to struggle in meeting law enforcement and free expression demands in sexual...