Somalia: Further information: Journalist's jail sentence upheld

Index Number: AFR 52/004/2013
Date Published: 6 March 2013
Categories: Somalia

Abdiaziz Abdnur Ibrahim, who had been found guilty on 5 February of "insulting a national institution", had his sentence upheld by Somalia's Appeals Court on 3 March. The woman who claimed she had been raped was cleared of the same charge.