Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim controversy

[6] On 10 January 2013, Colonel Abdullahi Hassan Bariise, the head of Somalia's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), detained Osman and used her phone to contact Ibrahim.

[5] A week later, Maye held a press conference in which he charged that Ibrahim had been involved with an Al Jazeera report on sexual violence in IDP camps in the capital.

[15] On 3 March, Judge Ali upheld Abdiaziz Ibrahim's conviction, stating that he "misled the alleged rape victim into the interview",[16] but reduced his sentence from one year to six months.

[16] Audrey Gaughran, Africa program director at Amnesty International, said that the manner in which the case was handled "risks discouraging victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence and the media from talking about this taboo subject".

[8] Daniel Bekele, Africa director of Human Rights Watch, stated that the trial was "flawed by serious violations of due process" and that it suggested the Somali government was "more concerned with deflecting criticism than protecting ordinary citizens.

[16] Navi Pillay, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that it is "deeply disturbing that a woman alleging rape can be penalized for reporting such a crime, and a journalist jailed for investigating it.

[20] Abdi Farah Shirdon, Somalia's Prime Minister, commented on the issue, saying that he would not intervene because the judiciary and the executive are independent branches of government.

It is tasked with investigating allegations of human rights abuses and journalist intimidation, including the Ibrahim case in Mogadishu, which it will review to see if due process has been followed.

The Task Force will eventually give way to a permanent parliamentary Human Rights Commission, which will have the capacity to investigate allegations over a longer period.