Amun Abdullahi
Amun Abdullahi or Amun Abdullahi Mohammed (born October 23, 1974) is a Somali-Swedish journalist and founder of a girls' school in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Biography
Amun Abdullahi grew up in Somalia and came in the 1990s to Sweden as a refugee. In Sweden, she lived first in Umeå, then Stockholm's Rinkeby district, and finally Kista, before moving back to Mogadishu, Somalia.
In Stockholm, she worked for SR International, and made several high-profile reports broadcast on Sveriges Radio. Among other things, she revealed in 2009 that a leader of a youth center in Rinkeby recruited young people to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabab.[1]
She has been both physically and intellectually attacked and repeatedly threatened due to her work. She claims that Sweden is "more dangerous than Mogadishu" for a journalist who wants to tell the truth.[2]
Awards
- 2010: Swedish Publicists' Association Freedom of Speech prize in memory of Anna Politkovskaya.[3]
References
- ^ "From Somali refugee to Swedish reporter". torontosun. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ Somali Journalist: PC-Media makes Sweden "more dangerous than Mogadishu", retrieved 2022-10-01
- ^ "SR International's Amun Abdullahi Mohamed Awarded Publicist Club Prize". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 2010-03-15. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
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