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A group of women and children held a peaceful demonstration if front of the Presidential Palace in Hargeisa to protest against the detention of their husbands/fathers in the Hargeisa central prison. One of the detainees affected with tuberculosis is said to have died due to lack of medical treatment. The Presidential Guard dispersed the demonstrators. The prisoners are ex-police officers who had abandoned their post in Laas Caanood in 2010 and who were subsequently condemned to 20 years imprisonment by a military court. |