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Mogadishu imam released
2007-02-24
(SomaliNet) The imam of the Isbaheysiga mosque, the biggest mosque in the Somalia capital has been released from the jail in Mogadishu by the allied forces of Somalia and Ethiopia, reports say on Friday. Sheik Sharif Sheik Abdirahman told the local media after his release that the he was dealt well during his arrest. “I was arrested as I was trying to visit one of my colleagues who was held by the government forces in 88 police headquarter in Mogadishu and I was taken to Villa Somalia where I was held for two days,” Sheik Abdirahman said. “I was arrested with one of the mosque clerics,”

He said that he was told the charges against him and who prosecuted the case but he insisted that he might suspect some religious men beside his mosque spied on him. Sheik Abdirhman said he was hopeful that his colleague will be released soon as the security officials promised. “I asked the security officers to release my fellow and they said that they will soon let him free. The Ethiopian backed interim government forces continue to hunt down anyone suspected of having links with the ousted Islamic Courts Union.
Posted by:Fred

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