Hassan Hanafi Haji, who was extradited from Kenya endure year on the appeal of the Somali government, was dead by battlefront band at a badge academy in Mogadishu on Monday. Battlefront band is the alone beheading adjustment in Somalia.
In his role as a communication administrator with al-Shabab, Haji was accepted to abuse journalists and radio stations for any advertisement not in favor of the Islamic agitator rebels, banishment abounding media outlets to convenance self-censorship for aegis reasons. Haji after led al-Shabab’s media unit, agreeable journalists to columnist conferences and giving them tours of battlefields.
He about apprenticed journalists to address according to al-Shabab’s media rules, which included alienated belief accompanying to the group’s aggressive setbacks.
Haji was one of the few suspects prosecuted by the Somali government afterward years of criticism by rights groups who apprenticed authorities to do added to authorize the aphorism of law and end the killings of journalists.
The killings of media workers about happened in government-controlled areas that journalists about accede safe.
Somalia is one of the a lot of alarming countries for media workers. At atomic 18 Somali journalists were dead endure year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
It’s not absolutely bright who has been killing journalists. Al-Shabab rebels, warlords, criminals, and even government agents all could accept affidavit to see journalists dead in Somalia.
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