
Somali Media Center (SOMEC) strongly condemns
the arrest of three journalists by the transitional Somali government
based in Baidoa. We are calling for their urgent release. The
journalists were traveling to Baidoa from Burhakaba District,
the scene of recent fighting between the government and te Islamic
Courts Union, when they were arrested and detained Tuesday,
24th of October 2006.
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Somali Media Center(SOMEC) is condemning the
brutal killing of award-winning Swedish journalist and photographer
Martin Adler, who was harshly targeted while fulfilling his
duties at demonstration against foreign peace keepers to be
deployed in Somalia in Mogadishu on Friday 23 June 2006.
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Taysir Alluni could never have suspected that
the 9/11 attacks and the US war against Afghanistan in its hunt
for al-Qaida and Taliban leaders would dramatically change his
life.
Alluni, who began his career as an Arabic translator for a news
agency in Granada, Spain, is credited as being the only journalist
based in Afghanistan in October 2001 to show the world what
the US war machine was doing to one of the world's poorest countries.
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