One of the Puntland famous journalists was threatened .

Bosaso 23 June 2009

A young Somali journalist boy named Mohamed Ali Royter has been threatened by unknown callers. Who told, they should kill him, when he was at his work in Basaso City of Punt land State.

Royter felt unseen shock and hung up the phone, but the caller did not redial until the frightened journalist went at his house.

Royter received unlimited mobile massages from the callers, who informed him they should kill, if he is not read or write the articles he wrote with the names they like, when he is at his centre Media.

‘‘We know where you live, take tea and your work centre and we will be with you any time how say you words.’’ Callers said in their calling.

Caller urges Royter to say widely any broadcasting of his time, words like Xarakatul Al-Shababul Mujaahidiin, if he said not, that he will be under another consequence.

Speaking to the media Royter says ‘‘I don’t know, why they call me, Who deliberately warned me they should kill me.’’

The journalists, whose threatened is not learnt in Bosaso or Punt land State, besides Mogadishu, which is mostly targeted them, but is part of warnings comes to media in Somalia.

Mohamed Abdi
Bosaso - Somalia

 

ASOJ Head Research and ducomentation