Somali journalists in Rome receive death threats

Death threats were issued on Thursday against Somali journalists Abdimalik Yusuf Mohamud and Mohamed Bashir Hashi of the Shabelle Media Network in Mogadishu, Italy's national Italian press federation (Federazione Nazionale della Stampa Italiana, FNSI) union revealed. FNSI said the threats came after the two took part in a demonstration at its Rome offices for human rights and a free press in Somalia on March 7. At the centre of the FNSI demonstration was the issue of Fadumo Abdulkadir Hassan of Kasmo Radio (the voice of women), who was raped by two political police agents. . .