MOGADISHU, Somalia 14 July 2020 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) are concerned about the continued prosecution against Goobjoog journalist, Abdiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye as the second day of hearing his case took place on Tuesday 14 July, 2020. The Banadir Regional Court today said it has a jurisdiction to hear the case while declining the preliminary objections mounted by the defense lawyers last week. The Court further asked the Office of the Attorney General (AG) for clarity on the charges against Gurbiye and to declare who were the victims of this case before adjourning the hearing.…
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MOGADISHU, Somalia 7 July, 2020 – Somali Media Association (SOMA) and Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) jointly call for the Office of the Attorney General (AG) of the Federal Government of Somalia to drop charges against Goobjoog Editor, Abdiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye who appeared today before the Banadir Regional Court after he was was pressed with unlawful criminal charges issued on 23 June by the Office of the Attorney General through the Banadir Regional Court. SJS and SOMA secured lawyers to defend Mr. Gurbiye before the court of law as the first hearing of the case took place today on 7 July,…
MOGADISHU, Somalia 05 July, 2020 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) jointly call for the protection of the safety of the journalists and freedom of the press amid an increased violence by state actors against independent media and journalists in Somalia and Somaliland On Sunday 05 July, armed police attacked and blocked journalists from the independent media houses: Universal TV, Radio Kulmiye, Radio Risaala and Dalsan TV, as they were covering an opposition protest at Daljirka area in Mogadishu. The police confiscated equipment from Universal TV journalists and even threatened with shooting. The equipment was…
Mogadishu, Somalia, 28 June, 2020: Somali Media Association (SOMA) is shocked to learn the closure of yet another media station, Radio Gedo, member of SOMA, based in the town of Doolow by the NISA on 28 June, 2020., the latest in a string of violence against the media stations across Somalia. Early Sunday Morning, armed forces entered the radio station and ordered the radio management and reporters close the radio station without court orders. The journalists and the management were told that Doolow District commissioner ordered the radio station’s shutdown. It was not immediately clear reasons behind the shutdown…
Mogadishu – Somalia 19 June 2020: The Somali Media Association (SOMA) has distributed Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to all its member media outlets operational in all over the regions of Somalia. SOMA has organized, purchased, and distributed the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to last for three months from June, July and August to twenty- five member media houses across Somalia. The purchased Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) consisting of Face Masks, Hand Sanitizers and gloves were intended to be distributed to the journalists working for all the 25 SOMA member media stations to ensure their protection from the pandemic coronavirus…
MOGADISHU, Somalia 10 June, 2020 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) calls for Somali Attorney General and Somali President’s Office to drop their charges against Goobjoog Media Group’s deputy director, Abdiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye after nearly two months since he was released on bail on 18 April, 2020 as we welcome the freedom of SAAB TV journalist in Hargeisa on Tuesday 09 June, 2020. Gurbiye was arrested on 14 April 2020 a day after he wrote on his Facebook that “Somali president had taken away a donated ventilator” from a local hospital amid Covid-19 pandemic.…
MOGADISHU, Somalia 07 June, 2020 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) have noticed for the first time in three months that Radio Hiigsi editor, Mohamed Abduwahaab Nuur (Abuuja) appeared before a military court in Mogadishu today on Sunday 07 June, 2020 and was transferred to the Mogadishu central prison. The journalist was first detained on 29 February 2020 following a critical article on Somali security forces. He was released on 2 March 2020 without charges to be only re-arrested five days later on 7 March by officers from the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA)…
MOGADISHU, Somalia June 6, 2020- Somali Media Association (SOMA) warmly welcomes the decision by the Somaliland authorities to release journalist Abdimalik Muse Oldon from the jail in Hargeisa today on Saturday 6 June, 2020. Speaking to reporters at Guled Hotel in Hargeisa shortly after his release, Abdimalik Oldoon, a freelance journalist, said that Somaliland president pardoned him. “I thank to Allah. I thank all the individuals and organizations who had participated in getting my freedom back” Mr. Oldon said. Somali Media Association (SOMA) is glad to hear the news that journalist Abdimalik has been freed and urge Somali authorities in…
MOGADISHU, Somalia 05 June 2020 – Somali Media Association (SOMA) is concerned by the decision to ban independent media houses from Somali Parliament’s Both Houses coverage ahead of tomorrow’s 7th Sitting of the Parliament. The media department of the Federal Parliament on Friday afternoon informed independent media houses that they would not be allowed to cover the Parliament session, which will take place on Saturday June 6th, 2020, confirmed the decision of the ban. “The independent media houses were informed in the ban for tomorrow’s Parliament Sitting which is very important because the Parliament is supposed to debate on the…
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