{"id":53736,"date":"2014-01-09T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T11:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=53736"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:40:24","slug":"al-shabab-announces-ban-internet-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=53736","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabab announce ban on internet in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in territories controlled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/al-shabaab\/\">al-Shabab<\/a> are banned from using &#8220;mobile internet and fiber optic technology&#8221;, the group announced in a radio message and subsequent written statement on Wednesday.\u00a0Internet service providers have been given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somalicurrent.com\/2014\/01\/09\/somalia-al-shabab-bans-mobile-internet-and-fiber-technology\/\">15 days to comply with the ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s two main ISPs, Hortel Inc and Nationlink Telecom, had this morning yet to respond to the demands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/01\/al-shabab-bans-internet-somalia-20141981213614575.html\">reports Al Jazeera English<\/a>. Details on how such a ban would be effectively implemented and enforced, beyond that those found to be in violation of it would be &#8220;considered to be working with the enemy&#8221; and &#8220;dealt with in accordance Sharia law&#8221; were not provided.<\/p>\n<p>While al-Shabab has lost some footing in recent times, especially in urban areas, they still hold control in many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-15336689\">rural parts in the country<\/a>. This is not the first time that control has been used to crack down on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2013\/03\/why-is-access-to-freedom-of-expression-important\/\">access to freedom of expression<\/a>. Late last year, the group banned use of <a href=\" http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24986072\">smart phones and satellite TV<\/a>. Previously, they have banned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2010\/04\/music-banned-from-radio-in-somalia\/\">BBC radio broadcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This latest moved comes not long after news that Somalia is to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-11-13\/somalia-to-get-high-speed-internet-after-satellite-deals.html\">get high speed internet from 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rebel group said anyone who doesn&#8217;t comply will be &#8220;considered to be working with the enemy and they will be dealt with in accordance Sharia law&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"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":[540,4883],"tags":[5317,4627,64,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53736"}],"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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53747,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53736\/revisions\/53747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}