Radio Horseed director freed after president pardon
By admin on Nov 08, 2010 with Comments 0
Somali journalist freed
Monday, November 08, 2010
Mogadishu (SOMWA) – A journalist who was jailed for six years in August for airing an interview with an al-Qaeda linked militia leader in Puntland state was freed Monday.
Abdifatah Jama Mire, director of Horsed Media, was arrested in mid-August after broadcasting a radio interview with Islamist commander Mohamed Said Atam whose militants are fighting the Puntland administration in Galgala area.
Mire was released on Monday after Puntland president Abdirahman Sheik Mohamed issued a statement pardoning him.
Puntland president forgave the journalist and he has been officially released from the prison in Bossaso where he was kept since August.
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