Journalists arrested in Somalia

NAIROBI, July 18 - Two journalists were arrested and a television station shut down in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland while several others were beaten in the self-declared state of Puntland, a media rights watchdog said Friday.The two Somaliland journalists -- Ahmed Saleban Dhuhul and Sayid Osman Mire -- were arrested Monday after police raided a private radio station in the region's capital Hargeisa, Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.They were accused by Somaliland president Dahir Riyale of stirring up a tribal dispute in which four people died, while the region's attorney general ordered a local TV station shut for airing the same dispute.In Puntland, police atttacked and beat up several journalists covering the trial of pirates in the port city of Bossaso...more..http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/International/Journalists-arrested-in-Somalia.html