Hargeisa (Hornpost) Journalist Abdiqadir Mohamed Aw Hassan, one of the journalists working in Hargeisa who report on social media, has been detained for 28 days at the Criminal Investigation Center in Hargeisa Holding to complete his case.
As confirmed, there is a video that he posted on his Facebook page against the President of the Republic of Somaliland.
Tomorrow, it is expected that he will be brought before the court again; he will be the longest-serving journalist in the country’s government led by President Abdirahman Irro, who was highly critical of the opposition and was arrested.
Journalist Abdirisaaq Qasim, who arrested yesterday from Berbera.
The government of Somaliland has arrested journalist Abdirisaaq Qasim from the media operating in the Sahel region for the second day at the Hargeisa Criminal Investigation Center (CID).
We are calling on the government of Somaliland to restore the freedom of the imprisoned journalists, and the judiciary should speed up the trial of their cases where they will be imprisoned from time to time.
Finally, the Somaliland Journalists’ Association in Solja has appointed lawyers to defend them during the trial.
Hornpost staff reporter