Journalists covering protests detained, beaten; Information Minister threatens with legal consequences for breaching 'Media Law'
Journalists covering protests detained, beaten; Information Minister threatens with legal consequences for breaching ‘Media Law’ LISTEN DEC 17, 2020 MOGADISHU, Somalia 17 December 2020 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) expresses its deep concern about the acts of targeting of journalists with arbitrary detention, restrictions on access to information and physical threats by the security forces during anti-electoral process demonstrations in Mogadishu on Tuesday 15 December 2020 and the threats by the Minister of Information against the journalists and the independent media. On Tue...