Somalia: Police Occupy, Close 2 Television Stations in Somaliland

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Authorities in Somaliland should immediately withdraw security personnel from the studios of the privately owned Universal TV and Star TV stations, and allow the stations to reopen and the journalists return to work without interference, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

On June 25, police officers ordered journalists to leave the Star TV offices in the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa, according to a post on Twitter by the station. They were still occupying the premises this afternoon local time, the station's owner, Mohamed Hassan, told CPJ via messaging app. The officers did not provide a warrant to the journalists, according to Mohamed and as well as two separate statements posted on Facebook by local rights organizations, the Human Rights Centre Somaliland and the Somaliland Journalists Association.

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