Somalia - Dismay at three-year jail sentence for Somaliland newspaper editor

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is “dismayed” by the three-year jail sentence and fine of 6 million Somaliland shillings (around 1,000 dollars) that a court in Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway northwestern territory of Somaliland, passed yesterday on Mohamud Abdi Jama, the editor of the independent newspaper Waheen, for allegedly libelling local officials. “This sentence has all the hallmarks of summary and punitive justice,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The court should have first (...)

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