On Monday, police in Somaliland arrested a local journalist who works for an independent radio station in Mogadishu.
Ilyas Abdi Ali was arrested on the evening of September 14 in Hargeisa.
Authorities detained him over a post he published on Facebook asking the government to release Abdimanan Yusuf, who owns Astaan TV.
Yusuf has been in custody since July 17, 2020.
A day after his arrest, Ilyas was presented before a court in Hargeisa where the magistrate granted the request by the police to detain him for a further seven days pending investigations.
Ilyas works for Radio Kulmiye and Radio Ergo, which are based in Mogadishu and Nairobi respectively.