Somaliland: Drop Charges against Rights Activist” Demands HRC

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Somaliland Human Rights. Centre press statement 

Due to his Rights activism Guleid Ahmed Jama is regularly under police scrutinize in Somaliland

Somalilandsun: The ongoing questioning of our chairman Guleid Ahmed Jama by police in Hargeisa should be ceased immediately as it brinks on official harassment.
This is per a press statement released by the Human Rights Centre-HRC in which it alleges that the government is persecuting the lawyer and Human rights campaigner following a petition urging the president to reform the Somaliland president to institute police reforms.
Read below the HRC press statement

Human Rights Centre calls on the government to drop the charges against Guleid Ahmed Jama
The Somaliland Police interrogated Guleid Ahmed Jama, a lawyer and the chairperson of Human Rights Centre, today, after he was summoned by the court to answer questions from the Police who filed a criminal against him for a recent petition hosted by Human Rights Centre calling on a police reform.
On Saturday, Guleid gave an interview to Sahan newspaper to explain the petition. The newspaper editor-in-chief was also questioned by the Police.
The petition in question asks the “President to reform the Police of Somaliland; to subject the police to the jurisdiction of the civilian courts; to pass laws and procedures making the Police accountable; and to reform the organization of the Police and restructure it to make it compatible with the Constitution of Somaliland in order to eradicate the Police practices inherited from the military government of Siad Barre”. So far hundreds of people signed the petition.
Human Rights Centre calls on the government to immediately drop the charges against Guleid.

Ahmed Hussein Abdi
The Spokesperson of Human Rights Centre
Hargeisa Somaliland
Email: media@hrcsomaliland.org

Click To peruse a few Rights campaigns that regularly create friction between Guleid Ahmed Jama and the Somaliland Government