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Abdalle Mumin fled torture in Somalia only to find a bank threatening to silence him with legal action in the UK. We’re helping him speak out.
When the journalist and human rights activist Abdalle Mumin fled torture and persecution in Somalia, he thought he’d be safe in the UK.
But now, Premier Bank – a major Somali financial institution – is seeking to silence Abdalle, using lawyers based in London to threaten dragging him through the UK courts. The complaint? News articles – which Abdalle says were nothing to do with him – and a handful of social media posts in which Abdalle criticised the bank.
If free speech means anything, it is the right to speak hard truths to those with power
