Somalia - TV station ransacked by Somaliland minister's bodyguards

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the ransacking of privately-owned Somali Channel TV's offices in the northern city of Buuhoodle by the bodyguards of Dr. Suleyman Isse, the health minister of the self-proclaimed autonomous state of Somaliland. RSF urges the authorities to condemn this act of violence. In the early hours of 8 February, Dr. Isse's bodyguards fired shots at the main entrance door, forced their way inside and then seized computers and cameras. Fortunately no journalists (...)

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