The police in the Somalia’s breakaway away region of Somaliland arrested on Tuesday two popular musicians in Hargeysa shortly after they returned from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
The arrest of Nimo Jama, a well known female singer and Hassan Mohamed Lab-Salah, a song writer came shortly after the two returbed back from Mogadishu where they spent a week to get Somali E-Passport and the National Identification Card issued by the office of the Federal Government of Somalia.
Both were caught from the Hargeysa Airport and were taken into the Central Police Station in Hargeysa, according to family members. The Somaliland authpotiries and the Hargeysa police commissioner rejected to justify the motive of the arrest.
Somaliland which is a breakaway region on the northwest of Somalia has maintained strict orders and punishment against the citizens traveling to Mogadishu. The region’s authorities claim to be independent from Somalia’s Federal Government.
In the past years numerous politicians, elders and civil society members were arrested in Hargeysa and other towns due to travels to Mogadishu.
Meanwhile on Monday Somaliland police raided the offices of two independent newspapers in Hargeysa after publishing reports of corruption and rapid misuse of public money by government individuals.
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