Every four months, Human Rights Centre issues a quarterly report on the situation of the media in Somaliland. The report is based on monitoring and documentation carried out by the Centre. This quarterly report covers the period from 11th April to 7th August, 2017, in which eleven journalists were detained, one was prosecuted and five websites were blocked.
“This report shows the hard environment Somaliland media is working in an election period. Somaliland government shall stop harassing the media,” says Guleid Ahmed Jama, the chairperson of Human Rights Centre.
“Eleven journalists were detained since April and another eleven were arrested in the first quarter of the year, making the total of detained journalists in this year twenty two,” he adds.
By: Human Right Center Human Rights Centre is publishing its second quarterly report for the months of May-August 2022. The report indicates human rights abuses occurred for the past 4 months in Somaliland. These violations comprise of police brutality, suppression of freedom of expression and media, arbitrary detention and a…
This quarterly report covers the general situation of human rights in Somaliland from January- May 2022. It is part of the Human Rights Center's reports based on information and data gathered to document the general situation of human rights issues in Somaliland. The report will cover and attempt to demonstrate…
Human Rights Centre (HRC) condemns the detention of opposition candidates and calls on the government of Somaliland to respect the Constitution, the Elections Act and the Code of Conduct for the Political Parties. In its quarterly report covering from January to April 2021, HRC documented an unprecedented target of opposition…