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UK-based journalist Jamal Osman was reportedly detained in Mogadishu on Sunday shortly after arriving at Aden Adde International Airport, According to sources, the multi-award-winning journalist and filmmaker will be held overnight at the Decale hotel inside the airport before being deported today…
Channel 4 news released a segment in mid-June produced by Jamal Osman entitled ‘Inside Al- Shabaab’ whereby Osman was granted unprecedented access to Al Shabaab’s leaders and training facilities. Osman interviewed the group’s de-facto leader Mahad Karate, the subject of a $5 million US bounty and one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, in the middle of an Al Shabaab stronghold.
The most common complaint was that Osman was humanizing the Al Qaeda-linked militant insurgency group by highlighting the positive aspects of living under their control, In early October, the Somali government introduced a directive to media outlets that declared “all Al Shabaab related propaganda coverage including their terrorist acts and their ideology as punishable crimes.”
