Government Led “Coup D'état” against Human Rights Organisation

Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 27, 2007 (SomaliLand Times) – [..] Shuro-net is the biggest human rights organization in the country, […] An organization of this size and magnitude holding an extraordinary AGM is bound to attract the attention and interest of the government, civil society and the local media. What was unusual in this meeting was that the group’s board of directors and executive committee were not present. Moreover, the group’s 70 member-organizations were not present in Wednesday’s extraordinary AGM in Ambassador Hotel. The meeting was even made more bizarre by the fact that it was chaired by the vice-chair of the national state-government Human Rights Commission, Mrs. Lul Hassan who is not a member of the umbrella group of members.