My name is Laila and I'm a journalist. I recently wrote a story about a young woman brutally 'gang-raped' by government soldiers in Somalia, hoping that her bravery in telling such a painful story would bring attention to the awful rape problem there. Instead, the government used my article to jail a rape victim and another journalist covering the story for ‘insulting the state’! I wrote about a Somali woman brutally gang-raped by government soldiers to bring attention to the awful … [Read more...]