Somalia: Journalists Harassed, Arrested

Reporters Without Borders says it is baffled by the hostility that authorities are showing towards journalists. Their statement comes after two members of privately-owned Radio Shabelle were arrested in Mogadishu, while two other journalists have been held in the northeastern region of Puntland and the northwestern region of Somaliland.

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