{"id":33678,"date":"2012-03-06T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T11:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33678"},"modified":"2012-03-06T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T11:18:18","slug":"somalia-journalist-shot-dead-in-galkayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33678","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Journalist shot dead in Galkayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Somalia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Somalia\" target=\"_blank\">Somalian<\/a> journalist has been <a title=\"BBC: Somalia journalist Ali Ahmed Abdi shot dead in Galkayo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-17257864\" target=\"_blank\">shot dead<\/a> by gunmen.\u00a0Ali Ahmed Abdi who worked for\u00a0a Somali news website was shot in the head several times by masked men as he walked home on Sunday evening in the northern town of Galkayo. Until recently, Abdi had\u00a0been working for the privately owned Galkayo Radio. Abdi is the third Somalian journalist to be killed this year. On Saturday, a\u00a0media director in Puntland was <a title=\"IFEX: Radio station closed, media director arrested in Puntland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/somalia\/2012\/03\/05\/radio_station_closed\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested and detained<\/a> following the closure of radio station\u00a0Radio Voice of Peace.\u00a0Officials did not give motive for Ali&#8217;s arrest, nor the shutting down of the radio station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Somalian journalist has been shot dead by gunmen.\u00a0Ali Ahmed Abdi who worked for\u00a0a Somali news website was shot in the head several times by masked men as he walked home on Sunday evening in the northern town of Galkayo. Until recently, Abdi had\u00a0been working for the privately owned Galkayo Radio. Abdi is the third [&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":[4382,346,4383,134,2028,3655,727,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678"}],"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=33678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33694,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678\/revisions\/33694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}