New York, October 28, 2026\u2014The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the breakaway republic of Somaliland to release journalist Abdirahman Mohamed Ege, who has been held without charge since October 22 in the city of Hargeisa after interviewing a presidential aspirant.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbdirahman Mohamed Ege has committed no crime, and the fact that he has been arrested for doing his job is a worrying sign that Somaliland authorities do not respect press freedom,\u201d said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Muthoki Mumo. \u201cAbdirahman should be released unconditionally and without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the morning of October 22, Abdirahman was summoned to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Somaliland\u2019s capital, Hargeisa, and detained upon arrival, according to the Somaliland Journalists Association<\/a>, and Abdikarim Saed Salah, deputy chairperson of Horn Cable TV, where the journalist works, who spoke to CPJ.<\/p>\n Abdikarim, who has visited Abdirahman several times in detention, told CPJ that the journalist was being questioned about his October 15 interview<\/a> with Abdiqadir Sharay, who plans to stand for the presidency of the Federal Government of Somalia in national elections<\/a> in 2027.<\/p>\n Somalia has a tense relationship with Somaliland, which declared independence<\/a> from Somalia in 1991. Somaliland has not been recognized<\/a> internationally, except for by Israel<\/a> in December 2025.<\/p>\n Abdiqadir was arrested on October 16 in connection with the interview, according to news<\/a> reports<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Somaliland authorities have cracked down<\/a> on press freedom<\/a> over the last year, with numerous arrests<\/a> of journalists and media workers. Journalist Abdiqani Hussein Abokor<\/a> is also in detention, having been arrested on August 29 after interviewing a poet.<\/p>\n CPJ\u2019s October 26 emails requesting comment from Somaliland\u2019s ministry of information and the office of the president did not receive any responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York, October 28, 2026\u2014The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the breakaway republic of Somaliland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[296909,36155,296910,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-659681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-abdirahman-mohamed-ege","tag-detained","tag-horn-cable-tv","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}