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Five-year jail sentence for Somali policeman who murdered a journalist

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate arrest of a Somali policeman so that he can begin serving the five-year jail sentence he received last November for fatally shooting a journalist. The sentence was not made public and RSF has only just learned of its existence.The verdict issued by a military court on 1 November 2018, a copy of which has been obtained by RSF, states: “In the court’s view, it has been clearly established that Abdullahi Ahmed Nur, a police

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