Islamist militia closes radio station, arrests three journalists |
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009 |
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Press Release
27 April 2009
SOMALIA
Islamist militia closes radio station, arrests three journalists
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the raid which members of the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab carried out yesterday on Radio Jubba in Baidoa (250 km northwest of Mogadishu), closing the station and arresting three of its journalists. Al-Shabaab is in control of Baidoa.
“The climate of terror which Somali Islamist insurgents are imposing on the press has gone on for too long,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The militias are responsible for many of the murders of journalists in Somali in the past two years, and have targeted leading civil society members on the grounds that they are serving the interests of the ‘Crusaders’. If nothing is done to stop them, Al-Shabaab will end up convincing journalists to give up working altogether.”
Heavily-armed Al-Shabaab militiamen burst into Radio Jubba’s studios yesterday evening and ordered the journalists to stop broadcasting. Station manager Muktar Mohamed Atosh, editor Mohamed Adawe Adan and reporter Mohamed Nur Mohamed were arrested. The raid was ordered by the head of security in the region, Sheik Hassan Derow, who accuses the station of “not obeying the administration’s orders.”
Muhidin Hassan Mohamed, the Baidoa correspondent of Mogadishu-based Radio Shabelle, was arrested by Al-Shabaab members on the evening of 16 April, a few hours after the station broadcast a report in which he said residents were subject to extortion by insurgents at checkpoints set up around Baidoa. He was released four days later, after admitting to disinformation.
With 11 journalists killed in the past two years, Somalia is Africa’s deadliest country for the news media. Al-Shabaab is on the Reporters Without Borders list of “Predators of Press Freedom.”
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SOMALIE
Une radio fermée et trois journalistes arrêtés par la milice islamiste Al-Shabaab
Reporters sans frontières condamne avec la plus grande fermeté le raid mené par des éléments du groupe islamiste armé Al-Shabaab, le 26 avril 2009 à Baidoa (250 km au nord-ouest de Mogadiscio), ayant mené à la fermeture de Radio Jubba et à l'arrestation de trois de ses journalistes.
"Le climat de terreur que font régner les insurgés islamistes somaliens sur la presse n'a que trop duré. Coupables d'une grande partie des assassinats de journalistes en Somalie depuis deux ans, les miliciens ont pris pour cibles privilégiées les membres les plus éminents de la société civile qu'ils accusent de servir les intérêts des 'Croisés'. Si rien n'est fait pour les en empêcher, les shabaab pourraient finir par décourager définitivement les journalistes de faire leur travail", a déclaré l'organisation.
Le 26 avril dans la soirée, un groupe de miliciens shabaab lourdement armés a pénétré dans les locaux de la station privée Radio Jubba à Baidoa et a ordonné aux journalistes de cesser les émissions. Le directeur de la radio, Muktar Mohamed Atosh, le rédacteur en chef, Mohamed Adawe Adan, et un reporter, Mohamed Nur Mohamed, ont été arrêtés. Le raid a été ordonné par le responsable de la sécurité de la région, Sheik Hassan Derow, qui reproche à la radio de ne "pas obéir aux ordres de l'administration".
Le 16 avril, également à Baidoa, le correspondant pour la radio privée Radio Shabelle, Muhidin Hassan Mohamed, avait été arrêté par les mêmes "shabaab", quelques heures après la diffusion d’un reportage dans lequel il évoquait le racket de la population par les miliciens à des barrages établis autour de la ville. Le journaliste avait été relâché au bout de quatre jours de détention, après avoir dû admettre s'être livré à la désinformation.
Avec onze journalistes tués en l'espace de deux ans, la Somalie est le pays le plus meurtrier d'Afrique pour les médias. La milice Al-Shabaab figure dans la liste des "prédateurs de la liberté de la presse" que condamne Reporters sans frontières.
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Ambroise PIERRE
Bureau Afrique / Africa Desk
Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris, France
Tel : (33) 1 44 83 84 76
Fax : (33) 1 45 23 11 51
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