| SOMALILAND: TWO SAID DETAINED FOR
ATTENDING DJIBOUTI CONFERENCE
100% match; BBC Monitoring Service -
United Kingdom ; 13-May-2000 12:00:00 am ; 63 words
Text of report by Somali newspaper `Xog-Ogaal' on 13th May
The Muhammad Ibrahim Egal administration [Somaliland] has
detained Abdi Hashi, one of the
intellectuals who attended a conference of Somali civil society
leaders in Djibouti. He was arrested
on arrival in Hargeysa from Djibouti and he faces treason
charges. Another man, Abd al-Rahman Alin,
has been in detention for a month, after having been accused of
attending the conference.
Source: `Xog-Ogaal', Mogadishu, in Somali 13 May 00
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