The officials have called the entire journalists operating in the district to report at their base in Afgoi district, and have threatened the journalists.
The journalists were informed that they cannot report anything unordinary which they see in the district to their respective media places.
“We were informed in a frown face that if we dare to report any irregular thing which we spot or sense in the district we shall be executed, and this is part of the challenges which the Somali journalists in the areas where Islamists such Al-Shabab and Hizbul-Islam control face, we have no guts to violate their instruction because some of our colleagues who have thumbed down previous instructions by the Islamist factions are now beneath the earth, we have no alternative for free speech” said a journalist who has requested his name not be used for his security.
The meeting between the local journalists and the officials of Hizbul-Islam was chaired by Ali Sheikh Omar the head of information department of Hizbul-Islam.
“We are clearly telling that any journalist working in this district who dares to reports things which he sees as irregular without informing us that journalist can face charges which can lead him his death” said Ali Sheikh Omar.
The administration of Hizbul-Islam in Afgoi district has been lately tyrannizing the journalists in the district, and this event comes at a time when a Hizbul-Islam fighter has with intent killed a trader in Afgoi district on Saturday, and the journalists in the district instantly reported the incident.
Somalia is the second place in the entire world where journalists have rough time in performing their duties of journalism in the most perfect way, this is because they are working between repelling sides.
Source: AllVoices.com
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