Goobjoog Media Group welcomes release of two Somali journalists in Mogadishu

Goobjoog Media Group has welcomed the release of two Somali journalists who have been behind the bars for the last ten hours  in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

“We are indeed welcoming that our colleagues received back their freedom,” Hassan Mohamud  Mohamed, the director of Goobjoog Media Group said.

Journalists Abdiweli Jama’a Barre and Zakaria Hussein were both detained in Godjiliow Detention Centre.

 The two were released at 3:00PM local time in Mogadishu.

They were arrested from Bakar Market on Friday evening while they were taking supper at hotel in the capital.

The motive behind the arrest of the two journalists remains unknown.

Somali journalists are encountering many difficulties including killings, arrests, forced closures of media outlets, threats, and occasionally, criminal charges.

Two journalists were killed in Mogadishu this year 2016 and only the last three weeks 10 journalists were arrested in Somalia. All were released without charges according to the National Union of Somali Journalists.

The latest being the two Journalists who were detained in Jowhar and four others in Kismayo.