{"id":30784,"date":"2011-12-06T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=30784"},"modified":"2011-12-06T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:36:56","slug":"somalia-journalists-arrested-in-clampdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=30784","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Journalists arrested in clampdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IFEX : Journalists arrested in Mogadishu clampdown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/somalia\/2011\/12\/05\/banadir_arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two journalists<\/a> have been arrested in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Somalia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Somalia\" target=\"_blank\">Somalia<\/a> after police refused to accept their press cards.\u00a0Salad Tifow Hassan and Qadar Hussein Ahmed from\u00a0privately-owned Radio Banadir were arrested by patrolling police officers who were patrolling in Mogadishu, and accused them of committing a security breach.<\/p>\n<p>Presenter Hassan and producer Ahmed were released on Sunday, with\u00a0no explanation given for the actions against them. The arrests are the latest in a widespread clampdown by Somalian security forces that has resulted in the arrest and detention of three radio journalists in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two journalists have been arrested in Somalia after police refused to accept their press cards.\u00a0Salad Tifow Hassan and Qadar Hussein Ahmed from\u00a0privately-owned Radio Banadir were arrested by patrolling police officers who were patrolling in Mogadishu, and accused them of committing a security breach. Presenter Hassan and producer Ahmed were released on Sunday, with\u00a0no explanation given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[2028,4064,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30807,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784\/revisions\/30807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}