Somalia: Radio Station Closed And Reporter Arrested At Behest of Islamic Courts

press release

Reporters Without Borders has condemned punitive measures taken by Somalia's Islamic courts against the press in the past few days, including the closure of the privately-owned Radio Jowhar and the arbitrary detention for 48 hours of Osman Adan Areys, a journalist based in the central city of Beledweyn.

"It is painful to see that, for the Somali population, anarchy is gradually being replaced by oppression," the press freedom organisation said. "It is not too late for the Islamic tribunals to realise that maintaining order is not a matter of imposing prohibitions and a reign of fear."

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