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Author: Ismail Abukar

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Ismail Abukar

Ismail Abukar is a Somali human rights advocate, researcher, and senior policy advisor based in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is co-founder and Chairperson of the Organization for Prisoners' Rights (OPR), an independent nonprofit civil society organization focused on prisoners' rights, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and prison reform in Somalia. He also chairs the Somali Rights Organization (SRO) and has served as Somali Youth Representative to the African Union (2019–2021). OPR's research has been cited by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the US State Department. He writes from Mogadishu. opr.org.so

  • Debating IdeasPoliticsSomalia
    By Ismail Abukar
    September 16, 2026
    37
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    The Sanctuary Parliament How Somalia’s Immunity System Protects Those Who Should Face Justice

    The first piece documented who disappeared into Somalia’s detention system. The second — “The Journalists Who Disappeared” — documented who was silenced for reporting it. This ...
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  • Debating IdeasPoliticsSomalia
    By Ismail Abukar
    August 11, 2026
    163
    0

    Somalia: A Government With One Foot Out the Door

    Somalia’s foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight On the afternoon of June 24, 2026, Somalia’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, Jibril Abdirashid ...
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  • Debating IdeasPoliticsSomalia
    By Ismail Abukar
    August 6, 2026
    149
    0

    Somalia: The Journalists Who Disappeared

    In October 2022, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin — Secretary-General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), the organisation that documents what happens to journalists in Somalia — arrived ...
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  • Debating IdeasPoliticsSocietySomalia
    By Ismail Abukar
    June 24, 2026
    340
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    Somalia: The Disappeared

    On the evening of 26 June 2021, a woman named Ikran Tahlil Farah left her home in Mogadishu after receiving a call from a number she ...
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