{"id":32549,"date":"2012-01-31T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32549"},"modified":"2012-01-31T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:30:38","slug":"somalia-media-network-director-gunned-down-outside-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32549","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Media network director gunned down outside home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The director of a media group has become the <a title=\"RSF: SHABELLE MEDIA NETWORK DIRECTOR GUNNED DOWN OUTSIDE HOME IN MOGADISHU\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/somalia-shabelle-media-network-director-28-01-2012,41781.html\" target=\"_blank\">first journalist<\/a> to be killed in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Somalia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Somalia\" target=\"_blank\">Somalia<\/a> in 2012.\u00a0Shabelle Media Network director\u00a0Hassan Osman Abdi was shot outside his home in Mogadishu at 6.30pm on Saturday. Five gunmen shot the father of three in the <a title=\"CNN : Somalia president decries journalist killing\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2012\/01\/29\/world\/africa\/somalia-journalist-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\">head and chest<\/a> as he returned from work. The shooting is believed to be connected to the network&#8217;s recent radio coverage of\u00a0government corruption.\u00a0Abdi is the first journalist to be killed in 2012 in Somalia, and the third\u00a0Shabelle Media Network director to be murdered, following\u00a0Bashir Nur Gedi\u00a0in 2007 and\u00a0Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe\u00a0in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of a media group has become the first journalist to be killed in Somalia in 2012.\u00a0Shabelle Media Network director\u00a0Hassan Osman Abdi was shot outside his home in Mogadishu at 6.30pm on Saturday. Five gunmen shot the father of three in the head and chest as he returned from work. The shooting is believed [&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":[540,584,585],"tags":[346,4246,905,727,916,4245,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32549"}],"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=32549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32552,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32549\/revisions\/32552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}