Somalia: Somaliland TV Channel Closed, Its Owner Arrested

press release

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the forcible closure of a TV channel in Hargeisa, the capital of northwestern Somalia's self-proclaimed independent state of Somaliland. It is the latest in a recent series of crackdowns designed to silence independent and critical media outlets.

In a raid on Horyaal TV on the evening of 6 September, Somaliland's Crimes Investigations Department ordered its journalists to stop broadcasting, forced all of its employees to leave and then shut it down. Horyaal TV's owner, Mohamed Osman Mire Sayid, was arrested the next morning. The TV channel remains closed.

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