Yusuf Abdi Gabode, the editor- in -chief and Ali Abdi Dini, the editor of Haatuf Media Network detained in Mandera jail for allegedly insulting the President of Somaliland and his wife have been released following a visit to the prison by an international delegation, including the head of the European Union for Africa on 29 March 2007.
Armed police stormed the headquarters of Haatuf Media Network, in Hargeisa city, Somaliland on 2 January and arrested the Editor-in-Chief, Yusuf Abdi Gabobe and the Editor, Ali Abdi Dini. About forty police officers in uniforms and in plain clothes, armed with both side arms and AK 47 guns forcefully entered the building and ransacked the premises, beating up anybody who asked for an explanation or proper documentation and finally dragging both men from the building. 
