Somalia: UK Should Show Leadership on Sexual Violence in Somalia

Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC), 31 January 2013

A Somali woman who said she was raped by state security forces, a journalist who interviewed her, her husband, and two others who tried to assist her, have been charged with multiple crimes, including insulting a government body. They face a court hearing on February 2. The journalist is sitting in a Mogadishu prison right now. All of them - including the woman herself - could face years of prison ...