Alerts | Arrest/detention under fake news laws

Somali editor detained over COVID-19 Facebook post

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Somali security forces arrested Aiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye, the editor of Goobjoog News in Mogadishu over a Facebook post he made which reported that President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo took a ventilator meant for COVID-19 patients from a hospital in the capital.

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