Unprecedented arrest of two Somali soldiers for mistreating journalists

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the unprecedented arrest of two Somali soldiers on charges of torturing and threatening two reporters, and urges the authorities to systematically punish all those responsible for crimes of violence against journalists in what is one of Africa’s most dangerous countries for media personnel. Impunity for crimes of violence against journalists has always been the norm in Somalia until the two soldiers were arrested on 24 March and placed in preventive detention on charges of “torture” a

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