[HCDX] Police Close Down Private Radio Station, Arrest Journalists

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Police Close Down Private Radio Station, Arrest Journalists
http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200804170910.html
National Union of Somali Journalists (Mogadishu)

PRESS RELEASE
17 April 2008
Posted to the web 17 April 2008

National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today condemns the closure 
of Radio Voice of Peace in Mogadishu and the subsequent arrest of four its 
journalists and technician.

Heavily armed police force of the Transitional Federal Government riding in 
a minibus raided this morning the radio station, ordered its staff to get out 
their offices and shutdown the privately-owned FM station, according to 
Mohammed Ali Irole, Director of the Radio Station and other journalists.

The four journalists arrested are Shafi´i Muhidin Islow, Editor-in-Chief of the 
Radio, Abdikamil Yusuf Mohamud, Reporter, Mohammed Ali Boston, 
Reporter, and Mohammed Kafi Ali, Reporter. Ibrahim Abdi Hassan, a 
technician, was also arrested with the journalists. The five media persons 
are being detained in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The Transitional Federal Government did not talk about the motive behind 
the attack but the journalists of Radio Voice of Peace who spoke to NUSOJ 
in condition of anonymity because of their security said that the attack may 
relate their coverage of last night´s Attack by Insurgents in KM4 area.

"Police brutalities against media are intolerable and Transitional government 
must stop violence against journalists and media houses by its soldiers" said 
Omar Faruk Osman, NUSOJ Secretary General. "It is purposeful violation of 
because it is unjustifiable to see armed men who are supposed to enforce 
law and order carrying out such attack".

"We demand the immediate release of our colleagues and the 
recommencement of Radio Voice Peace its service to the public" Omar 
Faruk added.

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