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Somalia: Police detained and threatened journalists

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Somalia: Police detained and threatened journalists. According to reports: “Military officers attached to Somali navy stopped journalist Abduqadir Osman Indhoy and his cameraman Mohamed Said Nur while they were conducting interviews with Mogadishu fishermen at the Liido beach. The journalists were investigating the effects of the summer monsoons on the fishing sector which also affects food security. According to the journalists, they were stopped at gunpoint, their equipment confiscated by a navy officer stationed at the beach who threatened to shoot them. Later police officers from Hamarweyne police station arrived and took the pair to a different location and held them for more than an hour at an open space before demanding $30 payment of “fine” from each of them in return for their release which the journalists declined. After contacting SJS and their editor, the journalists were freed and their equipment returned back.”

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