SOCFEX:: Somali Coalition For Freedom of Expression

PRESS RELEASE
18th June 2009
SOCFEX condemn indiscriminate artillery and bombardment between the government forces and Al Shabab melitia in Mogadishu whose fire arms entrap innocent people and the journalists who intend to report the damages.
On 17th of June, three journalists have been injured by mortar attack during a time when they were reporting the fighting between [...]

Two masked gunmen killed the director of one of Somalia’s largest broadcasters on Sunday, a witness and media official said, raising to five the number of journalists killed in Somalia this year.
The gunmen shot Radio Shabelle’s director Moqtar Mohamed Hirabe several times in the chest and head, reports said.
Radio Shabelle Editor Abdulrahman Aladala says another [...]

PRESS RELAESE
June 2, 2009
Somali Coalition For Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) today condemned abduction of Mogadishu Office director of Somali Universal Satellite TV Mr. Ibrahim Mohamed Hussein known as ‘Jekey’ at Afgoye district of lower Shebelle region near the capital city.
Unidentified Islamic gunmen armed with pistols have kidnapped the director of Universal TV [...]

Alert: 22 May 2009
Somali Coalition for Freedom of expression today condemned the death of prominent Somali journalist Abdirsaak Warsame Mohamed who was a reporter for radio Shabelle based in Mogadishu after a stray bullet hit as he headed to work on Friday.
Editor Abdirahman Yusuf Al-Adala of the Shabelle Media Network says a stray bullet [...]

10 May 2009
Three Somali reporters today wounded at press conference venue in Mogadishu as fighting intensifies for the fourth day between pro Somali government forces and Islamic insurgence groups.
The Horn Cable TV cameraman Abdulkadir Nur Gedi, Shabelle Radio reporter Bashir Khalif Gedi were wounded after missile landed at the venue causing huge explosion and panic. [...]

Somali Coalition for Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) welcomed the release of Mr. Muhiadin Hassan Mohamed who is reporter of Mogadishu based Shabelle radio.
The reporter has been detained 24 hours in Baidao police station that controls Al-Shabab group. The reporter said, he was treated well and thanked those who supported to secure his freedom.
We [...]

Somali coalition for freedom of expression (SOCFEX) today welcomed the release of journalist Jama Ayanle Feyte who was jailed and sentenced to two years in prison on 30th March 2009.
A Somali local online journalist, Jama Ayanle Feyte was jailed in Bosaso town of Puntland has been freed with a presidential pardon on Wednesday 15th April [...]

April 9, 2009
Somali Coalition for Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) today condemned the closure of radio Mandeq in Balad Hawo, South Somalia.
SOCFEX received reports that a radio Mandeq has been shut down by the commander of Alshabab in the region. He gave the order to close the station by telephone without giving any reasons and [...]