A prominent Somali journalist who was a critic of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab has been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the capital, Mogadishu.

Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, also known as Abdiaziz Afrika, was targeted as he was leaving a restaurant in the city shortly after midday.

Two other people nearby were injured in the blast and taken to hospital.

Al-Shabab said it was behind the attack and had targeted the journalist, who worked for Radio Mogadishu.

The bomber detonated a device in front of a car near the restaurant where Guled was accompanied by the director of Somali National Television and a driver, according to a report published on the official Radio Mogadishu website, citing police sources.

On 11/21/21 12:54 AM, RichA wrote:
> A prominent Somali journalist who was a critic of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab has been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the capital, Mogadishu.
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> Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, also known as Abdiaziz Afrika, was targeted as he was leaving a restaurant in the city shortly after midday.
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> Two other people nearby were injured in the blast and taken to hospital.
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> Al-Shabab said it was behind the attack and had targeted the journalist, who worked for Radio Mogadishu.
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> The bomber detonated a device in front of a car near the restaurant where Guled was accompanied by the director of Somali National Television and a driver, according to a report published on the official Radio Mogadishu website, citing police sources.
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Justin Brake was arrested after covering an Indigenous-led protest at a
Muskrat Falls construction site for The Independent in 2016. News of his
custody was met with outrage from several press freedom advocacy groups.
Brake, who faces up to a decade in prison if convicted, has pled not
guilty to contempt and mischief charges, with his civil charge hearing
pending. "If there's a conviction here, and journalism is criminalized
when journalists have to tell stories of public significance on private
property … that closes a lot of space in Canada where stories cannot be
told,” Brake told CBC.

The report also criticizes Montreal police for spying on seven
journalists. News broke in late 2016 that police used search warrants to
access the journalists’ outgoing/incoming phone records. One of the
journalists, La Presse’s Patrick Lagacé, was being tracked via his
iPhone’s GPS.
Shield laws, which have provided legal safety measures for journalists
in the U.S. and European countries, don’t yet exist in Canada. Laws that
explicitly protect source identities are absent too. That may change
with the Journalistic Sources Protection Act. Put forward as Bill S-231
by Conservative senator Claude Carignan after the discovery of Montreal
police surveillance, it proposes amending both the Criminal Code and the
Canada Evidence Act to protect the privacy of journalists and their
sources. By becoming Canada’s first national shield law, it would make a
journalist’s communications and notes harder to seize by law enforcement.

On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 3:54:40 AM UTC-5, RichA wrote:
> A prominent Somali journalist who was a critic of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab has been killed

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Rachel Corrie - Death of an Idealist (2004)

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