Somalia’s Journalist Protest Demanding over Gurbiye’s jailed without Charges

Some of Somalia’s journalists work in Mogadishu Protest Demanding over Goobjoog Media Group Editor, Abdiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye’s jailed without Charges by the government Somalia.

On 16th April 2020, Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ), Somali Congress of Trade Union (SOCOTU) and another local press rights group strongly condemns for unreasonable detention of Goobjoog journalist, Abdiazizi Ahmed Gurbiye and call for immediate release.

The Editor was arrested on 14th April 2020 following an order from the office of Somalia’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo.

Gurbiye was accused of a statement he posted on his Facebook Account which states a ventilator donated to martini hospital transferred to the office of the president without prioritizing the agency.

“The statement cannot justify by any means of the journalist arrest, therefore, Somali Congress of Trade Union strongly condemns the risking attack, detention sustained act of intimidation”. Said Somali Congress of Trade Union in a statement.

According to the UN Human Rights Committee stated that the State should consider decriminalizing defamation and that, even in the most serious cases imprisonment is never an appropriate penalty to the defendants so far the country faces insecurity objections.

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