Somalia: ANHRI Denounces the Attempt to Assassinate a Journalist

 

Press release

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuing targeting the journalists by armed groups from Somalia after the journalist Abdulqader Abdulrazek Gama’ was shot who works of Royal and the Future Radio as he was targeted by armed me who aimed live ammunition on him. Abdulrazek, on Thursday night, in the southern of Mogadishu where he was surprised by number of unknown armed men who aimed live ammunition on his face without clear charges in the light of total opacity then he was sent directly to the hospital and he still under treatment until now. It is worthy to mention that he was arrested, he and others, on the hands of who called “Militias of “Raskambnoi” and released him after they were arrested shortly. ANHRI expressed its deep concern regarding the life of the journalists who are exposed to dangerous of the assassination in Somalia by armed groups who are affiliated to different parties as 4 journalists were killed since the begin of 2013 and until now in similar events. ANHRI said that “the authorities must seriously investigate the fact of assassinating the journalist and reveal all the armed parties that target the journalists in Somalia until taking all the possible ways against them as it isn’t acceptable that the journalists still threatened by murdering as a result of performing their job and their keen on performing their message”.

Source: anhri