Horndiplomat-Hargeisa regional court found poet Abdirahman Abees not guilty and ordered immediate release. The court said he exercised his freedom of expression.
On Saturday, 12 January 2019, the government of Somaliland arrested poet Abdirahman Abees, a British-Somalilander dual national.
#Somaliland:Hargeisa regional court found #poet Abdirahman Abees not guilty and ordered immediate release. The court said he exercised his freedom of expression. He was arrested on 12 January after he held a poetry reading event in Hargeisa. According to @GuleidJ pic.twitter.com/xCO3YzEaPt
— Horndiplomat (@HornDiplomat) February 25, 2019