The Somali Journalists Rights Agency (SOJRA) is concerned about the safety of its repressentative Awale Jama Salad who was one of the four kidnapped journalists in Bossaso Puntland-Somalia.

The Somali Journalists Rights Agency (SOJRA) is concerned about the safety of its repressentative Awale Jama Salad who was one of the four kidnapped journalists in Bossaso Puntland-Somalia.

The four were abducted after they left their hotel and Somali freelancers Awale Jama Salaad who is also SOJRA repressentative in Puntland and Muktar Said were seized by unknown assailants around mid-day.

Foreigners, journalists and humanitarian workers are frequently abducted for ransoms in Somalia.

Press freedom and the protection of rights of journalists are being jeopardised by the brutal actions of criminal gangs in Somalia.

Freeman and Cendón were in the region for a week to report stories on piracy. Jama and Said, both of whom are local journalists, were assisting them as fixer and interpreter, local reporters told CPJ.

The two foreign journalists were expected to depart Puntland today for a flight to Djibouti, Agence France-Presse reported.

Freelance journalists Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan who were kidnapped in August outside the capital, Mogadishu, are still being held captive.

SOJRA expressed grave concerns of kidnapped journalists’ safety.

They asked the kidnappers to release the journalists as they are held solely for the exercise of their professional journalistic duties.

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