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– Horseed Media journalist detained without charge in Puntland (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News August 16, 2017

An editor at Horseed Media speculated that the arrest of journalist Omar Saeed Mohammed might be linked to a Facebook post he had written, alleging the involvement of Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali in a counterfeit money-printing scam.
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