Breaking News: Universal TV’s journalists released after six days in jail

Two of London-based Somali owned Channel Universal TV’s journalists Awil Dahir Salad and Abdullahi Hirsi Kulmiye were released from prison on Wednesday afternoon after being detained for six days.
The detention of the two related to debate program on the critical of state of the country that has been aired 30th of last month by the station.
This comes after press statement released from speaker’s office stated that the Somali Federal speaker urged the attorney general to release of Universal VT’s Journalists.
“Because of the MPs involvement in the case, the  speaker asked the attorney general to grant freedom the journalists immediately and he (Attorney general) accepted the request” reads the statement
Earlier this month Somali security forces have closed down universal TV’s office in Mogadishu and apprehended two staffers including a senior journalist.
Addressing the journalists, the channel’s head of programs, Mohamed Ahmed Haji aka Agma-dhige said that two of the station’s journalists have spent a night behind the bars and the office remained closed following the raid by National Intelligence Service Agency, NISA on Friday evening.
He pointed out that the detention is related to debate program on the critical of state of the country that has been aired 30th of last month by the station.
“The administration of Universal TV condemns the arbitrary arrest against two journalists in Mogadishu, the latest in a string of violence against the journalists in Somalia” he said.
Reports say that in the program some of the MPs who participated in argued that Somalia is not a free country; and that the presence of AMISOM troops from front-line states is “illegal”.