Somalia
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Somali Journalists Syndicate and RFK Human Rights Submit Communication to UN Human Rights Committee for Somali Journalist Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
Tags Share Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) have submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee for the case of exiled Somali journalist and human rights defender, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin. Mumin is a renowned journalist who was thrice arbitrarily arrested, detained, and tortured by Somali state security forces…
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SJS and RFK Human Rights call for Mohamed Bulbul’s immediate release
Tags Share MOGADISHU/ WASHINGTON DC – The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) strongly denounce the ongoing arbitrary detention of SJS Information and Human Rights Secretary, Mohamed Ibrahim Osman Bulbul and demand his immediate and unconditional release. We are deeply alarmed by the growing trend of attacks against journalists and…
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RFK Human Rights and other leading international organizations call on Somali government officials to drop charges against Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins six other international organizations in a letter to Somali government officials calling for all charges against journalist, press freedom advocate, and Secretary General of Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, to be dropped. The letter details the arbitrary arrests, detention, and persecution that Mr. Mumin has…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights demands immediate release of Somali journalist and human rights defender Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest and detention of Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, Somali journalist, human rights activist, and Secretary General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and urges Somali authorities to immediately release him and end all harassment, intimidation, threats, and violence against journalists and civil society activists in…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins Somali organizations in calling for the immediate release of detained journalists in Somaliland
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins the Somali Journalists Syndicate and the Somali Media Association in condemning the retaliatory detention of 15 journalists in Hargeisa, and calls on Somaliland authorities to immediately release the three detained journalists who remain in detention. On April 13, Somaliland police and intelligence service officers arrested a group…
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Release Somali Journalist Kilwe Adan Farah
Farah’s illegal arrest and detention not only violate human rights law but send a chilling message to journalists in Somalia.
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Somali Journalist Released From Detention
After being arbitrarily detained for criticizing Somali actions against citizens, Abuuja Abdiwahab Nuur is now free.
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