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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Free 3 Somali Journalists
1. Muktar Mohammed Atosh of HornAfrik Radio.
2. Mohammed Addawe Adam of Shabelle Radio
3. Fahad Mohammed Abukar of Warsan Radio in Baidoa

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