{"id":2573,"date":"2022-07-19T16:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:34:53","slug":"mogadishu-police-shoot-beat-and-detain-2-reporters-sws-holds-journalist-incommunicado-somaliland-bans-bbc-somali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/mogadishu-police-shoot-beat-and-detain-2-reporters-sws-holds-journalist-incommunicado-somaliland-bans-bbc-somali\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogadishu police shoot, beat and detain 2 reporters; SWS holds journalist incommunicado, Somaliland bans BBC Somali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mogadishu (Onkod Radio), \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) call for South West State (SWS) authorities to immediately and unconditionally free journalist\u00a0Hassan Ali Daud<\/a>\u00a0held in undisclosed detention by South West State intelligence officers in Baidoa since Friday 15 July, as we also call for the federal authorities in Mogadishu to hold officers who\u00a0attacked<\/a>\u00a0two reporters on Monday 18 July accountable.<\/p>\n

On Friday 15 July, journalist Hassan Ali Da\u2019ud, who reports for Arlaadi Media Network (AMN) has disappeared from his home in Baidoa after he was detained and taken to unknown location by the intelligence officers. According to colleagues and family, his detention follows\u00a0his coverage<\/a>\u00a0about a complaint made by members of South West State (SWS) opposition lawmakers who spoke about a physical attack by South West State president Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed (Laftagareen)\u2019s security guards in Baidoa on 6 July. The report was\u00a0broadcasted<\/a>\u00a0on AMN.<\/p>\n

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Journalist Hassan Ali Da\u2019ud who is held incommunicado detention in Baidoa since Friday, 15 July, 2022. PHOTO\/SJS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sources in Baidoa told SJS and SOMA that the journalist is held in undisclosed detention facility run by the South West State intelligence in Baidoa. His family confirmed that they had not heard or seen him since Friday. South West State\u2019s information minister, Ilyas Ali Nur, did not provide response and said he will call back when contacted by SJS for the journalist\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

Separately, police and military officers in Mogadishu\u2019s Wadajir district on Monday attacked, shot at, beat and detained two Arlaadi Media Network (AMN) journalists. AMN television reporter, Mohamed Nur Mohamed and cameraman Munasar Abdirahman were conducting interviews on the impact of roads blocked by the ongoing rains due to lack of maintenance in Wadajir neighbourhood when two armed officers came and\u00a0shot at them before starting to beat<\/a>\u00a0the two journalists on\u00a0the barrel of their guns<\/a>, as confirmed by AMN director, Ahmed Ali, who spoke to SJS and SOMA. The journalists were later detained at the Wadajir police station and their equipment confiscated and destroyed. According to Mohamud Nur Mohamed, they were both freed on Monday evening and were not charged.<\/p>\n