{"id":416,"date":"2026-05-09T21:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:41:53","slug":"guardian-reporter-and-colleagues-detained-and-beaten-by-somali-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Guardian reporter and colleagues detained and beaten by Somali police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Bulbul arrested in Mogadishu after covering case of woman allegedly being tortured in prison<\/p>\n<p>A journalist who covered the case of a woman who said she was being tortured in prison was detained and beaten with pistols by Somali authorities, along with two others, for his reporting for the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Bulbul <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KaabTV\/status\/2052815618647437742\">was arrested with the journalists Abdihafid Nor Barre and Abdishakur Mohamed Mohamud<\/a> on Friday evening while in a restaurant in the centre of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. They said they were assaulted by members of Somalia\u2019s US-trained counter-terrorism police unit and taken to be questioned by police. All three were released in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/may\/09\/guardian-reporter-and-colleagues-detained-and-beaten-by-somali-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Bulbul arrested in Mogadishu after covering case of woman allegedly being tortured in prison&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}