On 15 August, Somali security forces raided and shut down Radio Shabelle and Sky FM Radio in Mogadishu and arrested 19 journalists and staff working for the two stations. Most journalists were later released expect radio station owner Abdimalik Yusuf Mohamud, Sky FM director Mohamud Mohamed Dahir, and Shabelle deputy news editor Ahmed Abdi Hassan who the government said will be charged with allegedly inciting violence. Journalists who visited those in custody reported that the detained journalists had been tortured. The stations resumed broadcasting on 19 August.
On 17 August, 11 journalists who were attending a press conference organized by opposition leader Ali Mohamed Nuh in a Mogadishu hotel, were taken into custody for more than three hours before being released and subsequently ordered to report to the Somali Intelligence headquarters every Wednesday. The only crime they had committed was to cover the opposition's press conference.
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