PRESS RELEASE

Stockholm, November 9, 2007 – 140 Journalists who died in the line of duty this year until November 9, 2007, will be honoured in Stockholm, Sweden, by PROFOCA (Professional Foreign Correspondents Association) during the 2007 JOURNALISTS STOCKHOLM MEMORIAL to be conducted on November 15 at the Catholic Cathedral.

During the ceremony,  seven colleagues from  Somalia, Abdulkadir Mahad Moallim Kaskey,

Mahad Ahmed Elmi, Ali Iman Sharmarke, Abshir Ali Gabra, Ahmed Hassan, Mohammed Abdillahi Khalif

and Ali Mohammed Omar will be remembered when the ambassador of their country together with one journalist member of PROFOCA kindle a candle and deposit it on the altar during the ecumenical ceremony established in year 2003 in Sweden to show respect to our colleagues who offered their lives in this terrorized and unstable world.

In 2005, His Sanctity Pope Benedictus XVI, sent his blessings to the Journalists Stockholm Memorial as well as all participants.