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Former President of the Republic of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud spoke about the arrest of Journalist Abdiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye, local media in Mogadishu, who was arrested yesterday in the Hodan district of Banadir region.
Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud posted a short Twitter message on his Twitter account saying: -“The intimidation and arrest of journalists against silence, it does not help in the democratization of our country. The arrest of a Journalist is a sign of a culture of dictatorship.”The former president of Somalia joins the calls to support the freeing of a journalist in Gurbiye, where he is in the hands of the Somali government for the second day.
Earlier, yesterday, letters were sent to journalists, prominent politicians, academics, and members of the government, who all appealed to the. Villa Somalia government to free its imprisoned journalist.