CPJ: Somalia targets 41 journalists in crackdown on independent media

[Deeq A.]

Mogadishu (HOL) — Somalia's embattled journalists are being swept up in an intensifying crackdown by security forces, with at least 41 media workers arrested, harassed, or intimidated since mid-March—a development rights groups warn amounts to a "war on the truth," and what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called an "alarming escalation" in attacks on the media.

Source: Hiiraan Online