Somalia: Crackdown On Journalists Condemned

Muqdisho — The National Union of Journalists of Great Britain and Ireland (NUJ) has condemned the growing crackdown against journalists and trade union leaders in Somalia, that has included the jailing of prominent journalists and threats made against the National Union of Somali Journalist's general secretary Omar Faruk Osman Nur by the Somalian Minister of information Mustaf Sheikh Ali Dhuholow.

Following the NUSOJ's public statements over a proposed new media law - which in its present state and without significant reform cannot be seen as anything other than repressive - the minister of information made a personal call to the NUSOJ general secretary and said: "This country is insecure and unstable because of you and you have said many things about me and my work. I want to tell you that I will take action against you immediately."

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