{"id":2523,"date":"2022-07-11T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:34:53","slug":"galmudug-police-detain-human-rights-journalist-over-a-facebook-post-deemed-critical-to-president-qoorqoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/galmudug-police-detain-human-rights-journalist-over-a-facebook-post-deemed-critical-to-president-qoorqoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Galmudug police detain human rights journalist over a facebook post deemed critical to president Qoorqoor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mogadishu (Onkod Radio)\u2014<\/strong> Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) call for the urgent and unconditional freedom of journalist Hashim Omar Hassan, a member of SJS human rights journalists network, who is arbitrarily detained in Adado town in Galmudug State, since Saturday morning 9 July, over Facebook posts<\/a>\u00a0deemed critical to Galmudug State president, Ahmed Abdi Karie (Qoorqoor).<\/p>\n

According to local journalists and an official at Galmudug\u2019s ministry of information, around 10:30am on Saturday, armed police detained journalist Hashim Omar Hassan who reports for Shabelle television and radio while covering the Eidul-Adha congregation in Adado town. He was then escorted to the police station where he was held.<\/p>\n

Adado district police commander, Mohamed Cadceed confirmed that his officers detained the journalist after president Ahmed Qoorqoor instructed Hashim\u2019s arrest through the Adado district commissioner, Abdullahi Abdirahman Hussein (popularly known as Tootoole). He said the journalist was arrested over two Facebook posts deemed critical to president Ahmed Qoorqoor\u2019s visit in Baxdo following the recent\u00a0al-Shabaab attack<\/a>. On Friday 8 July, Hashim made two posts\u00a0alleging Galmudug state president<\/a>\u00a0Ahmed Qoorqoor, who is currently on a visit to the area, of \u201cturning down the role<\/a>\u00a0of Galmudug security forces in the fight against al-Shabaab\u201d.<\/p>\n

When SJS and SOMA reached out, the minister of Information of Galmudug State, Ahmed Shire, said he was following up to the journalist\u2019s arrest adding that he was not informed about any charges against Hashim.<\/p>\n

SJS and SOMA protest journalist Hashim Omar Hassan\u2019s ongoing detention as we call for his immediate and unconditional release. Galmudug\u2019s president, Ahmed Qoorqoor and his state officials should not perpetuate the threats and arbitrary detention of journalists for publishing views critical to the state or the president himself. In October last year, the same police officers\u00a0detained journalist Hashim<\/a>\u00a0in Adado following\u00a0his report<\/a>\u00a0that covered a meeting by members of the Sufi followers who supported the renewed resurgence of the Ahlusuna militia in Galmudug and freed him days later without charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe strongly condemn the ongoing arbitrary detention of our member journalist, Hashim Omar Hassan in Adado since Saturday. We call for his immediate and unconditional freedom,\u201d Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, the Secretary-General of Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) said. \u201cWhile Galmudug is in the midst of humanitarian and security crisis amid the state election scheduled in less than two years\u2019 time, state officials should stop their intimidatory tactics against independent journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe condemn the illegal arrest of our colleague journalist, Hashim Omar Hassan in Adado on Saturday. We demand his immediate release. There is no reason for a journalist to be arrested for covering public interest events in his region,\u201d Mohamed Osman Makaran, the Secretary-General of Somali Media Association (SOMA) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mogadishu (Onkod Radio)— Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) call for the urgent and unconditional freedom of journalist Hashim Omar Hassan, a member of SJS human rights journalists network, who is arbitrarily detained in Adado town in Galmudug State, since Saturday morning 9 July, over Facebook posts deemed critical to Galmudug State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hashim-Omar-Hassan-1068x597-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}