** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SECOND REFERENCE TO SABBATELLA INSTEAD OF SABATELLA ** Martin Sabbatella, left, head of the government media regulation body, is surrounded by reporters outside the newspaper office of Grupo Clarin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Sabbatella said Monday that the government will make the conglomerate and other companies comply with the law, which bars any company from owning too many different media properties. The law could require Grupo Clarin to sell off broadcast licenses as well as its majority stake in Cablevision, the cable TV network that has become the company's cash cow. (AP Photo/Daniel Dabove,Telam)
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Linda Stilwell was last seen at Luna Park in 1968.
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** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SECOND REFERENCE TO SABBATELLA INSTEAD OF SABATELLA ** Martin Sabbatella, left, head of the government media regulation body, is surrounded by reporters outside the newspaper office of Grupo Clarin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Sabbatella said Monday that the government will make the conglomerate and other companies comply with the law, which bars any company from owning too many different media properties. The law could require Grupo Clarin to sell off broadcast licenses as well as its majority stake in Cablevision, the cable TV network that has become the company's cash cow. (AP Photo/Daniel Dabove,Telam)
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** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SECOND REFERENCE TO SABBATELLA INSTEAD OF SABATELLA ** Martin Sabbatella, center, head of the government media regulation body, Federal Authority on Audiovisual Communication Services (AFSCA) and Sergio Surano, right, director of the AFSCA legal department, listen as Grupo Clarin's lawyer Damian Cassino, left, speaks during a meeting, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Sabbatella said Monday that the government will make the conglomerate and other companies comply with the law, which bars any company from owning too many different media properties. The law could require Grupo Clarin to sell off broadcast licenses as well as its majority stake in Cablevision, the cable TV network that has become the company's cash cow. (AP Photo/Daniel Dabove,Telam)
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Somali president Sharif Sheik Ahmed, left, and UN envoy for Somalia Augostina Mahiga, right, during the swearing in ceremony of 211 MP's at Aden Ade international airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Aug 20, 2012. Somalia's newly-selected members of parliament were on Monday sworn in as the Horn of Africa country moves from the long-drawn transitional period to a permanent form of government. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsamehmeh)
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New Somali members of parliament put their hands on the Quran to take an oath during the swearing in ceremony of 211 MP's at Aden Ade international airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Aug 20, 2012. Somalia's newly-selected members of parliament were on Monday sworn in as the Horn of Africa country moves from the long-drawn transitional period to a permanent form of government. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsamehmeh)
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Somali Prime Minister Abdiwali Mohamed Ali, right, during the swearing in ceremony for members of Somalia's first parliament in twenty years, at Aden Abdulle International Airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. 211 parliamentarians out of a total of 275 were sworn-in Monday at an open-air ceremony. The MPs were selected by traditional elders and are scheduled to sit the first session of parliament on 21 August where a process will be begin to select a speaker of parliament and new president after the current mandate of the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Somali President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left and the USAID administrator Rajiv Shah, right, at a joint press conference at Mogadishu airport, Somalia, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Shah who made the first visit by a high ranking US administration official for years in Somalia has announced $20 million in new funding to support health and education programs, noting the U.S. also wants to help Somalia fight corruption. (AP Photo)
Somali court overturns conviction of journalist
MOGADISHU,
Somalia (AP) —
Somalia's
Supreme Court has overturned a widely criticized conviction of a journalist who was sentenced to six months in prison after he interviewed a woman who said she was raped by security forces
Chief Justice Aideed Abdullahi Ilkohanaf said Sunday there was not enough evidence to support an appeals court ruling that reporter Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim offended national institutions. The justice noted the reporter had not published the interview.
The ruling closes a case that human rights groups had described as a politically motivated effort by the state to shut down negative reports about sexual assaults carried out by security forces.
Earlier in March the appeals court dropped charges against a woman who said she had been raped by security forces. A lower court convicted the woman of defaming the government.
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